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British military and naval medicine, 1600-1830 /
Annotation Standing armies and navies brought with them military medical establishments, shifting the focus of disease management from individuals to groups. Prevention, discipline, and surveillance produced results, and career opportunities for physicians and surgeons. All these developments had an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2007.
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| Colección: | Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
81. Wellcome series in the history of medicine. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction: British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830
- 2. Warfare and the Creation of British Imperial Medicine, 1600-1800
- 3. The British Army in North America and the West Indies, 1755-83: A Medical Perspective
- 4. Disease and Medicine in the Armies of British India, 1750-1830: The Treatment of Fevers and the Emergence of Tropical Therapeutics
- 5. Who Cared? Military Nursing during the English Civil Wars and Interregnum, 1642-60
- 6. Privates on Parade: Soldiers, Medicine and the Treatment of Inguinal Hernias in Georgian England
- 7. British Naval Health, 1700-1800: Improvement over Time?
- 8. The Medical Profession and Representations of the Navy, 1750-1815
- 9. From Palace to Hut: The Architecture of Military and Naval Medicine
- 10. Internal Influences in the Making of the English Military Hospital: The Early-Eighteenth-Century Greenwich.