Public Health and the US Military : a History of the Army Medical Department, 1818-1917.

Public Health and the US Military is a cultural history of the US Army Medical Department focusing on its accomplishments and organization coincident with the creation of modern public health in the Progressive Era. A period of tremendous social change, this time bore witness to the creation of an i...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2010.
Temas:
United States. > Army Medical Department (1968- ) > History.
United States. > Army > Sanitary affairs.
United States. > Army
United States. > Army Medical Department (1968- )
Medicine, Military > United States > History.
Military hygiene > History.
Public health > History.
Hygiène militaire > Histoire.
Santé publique > Histoire.
Armed Forces > Sanitary affairs
Medicine, Military
Military hygiene
Public health
United States
Electronic resource.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction: Waging HealthThe U.S. Army Medical Officers Quest for Identity and Legitimacy
  • 1 Practice, Status, Public Health, and the Army Medical Officer, 18181890
  • 2 The Medical Officer in The New School Of Scientific Medicine, 18611898
  • 3 The Other War of 1898: The Army Medical Departments Struggle with Disease in the Volunteer Camps
  • 4 Making the Tropics Fit for White Men: Army Public Health in the American Imperial Periphery, 18981914
  • 5 The Ascendance of Sanitation in the Army Medical Department and the Quest for Preparedness, 19011917
  • 6 Vice and the Soldier: The Army Medical Department and Public Health as Morality, 18901917
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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