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Battlefield medicine : a history of the military ambulance from the Napoleonic Wars through World War I : with a new preface /
In this first history of the military ambulance, historian John S. Haller Jr. documents the development of medical technologies for treating and transporting wounded soldiers on the battlefield. Noting that the word ambulance has been used to refer to both a mobile medical support system and a mode...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2011.
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| Edición: | Pbk. ed. |
| Colección: | Medical humanities series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this first history of the military ambulance, historian John S. Haller Jr. documents the development of medical technologies for treating and transporting wounded soldiers on the battlefield. Noting that the word ambulance has been used to refer to both a mobile medical support system and a mode of transport, Haller takes readers back to the origins of the modern ambulance, covering their evolution in depth from the late eighteenth century through World War I. The rising nationalism, economic and imperial competition, and military alliances and arms races of the. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 269 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0809387875 9780809387878 1280697202 9781280697203 9786613674166 6613674168 |