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A heavy reckoning : war, medicine and survival in Afghanistan and beyond /
As long as humans have lived together on the planet there have been wars, andinjured soldiers and civilians. But today, as we engage in wars across the globe with increasingly sophisticated technology, we are able to bring people back from ever closer encounters with death. But how do we do it, and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Profile Books,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 2 | |a A heavy reckoning : |b war, medicine and survival in Afghanistan and beyond / |c Emily Mayhew. |
| 264 | 1 | |a London : |b Profile Books, |c 2017. | |
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| 505 | 0 | |a The war in Afghanistan : timeline -- 'Blood is the argument' -- Scott Meenagh -- Mark Ormrod (1) -- The Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) -- The deal -- Field Hospital Camp Bastion (Bastion) -- Mark Ormrod (2) -- Bastion's medics -- History -- Critical care -- Critical Care Air Support Team (CCAST) -- Birmingham -- The duty critical care nurse -- Mark Ormrod (3) -- Mark Ormrod (4) -- Rehabilitation : Headley Court -- Sockets and stumps -- Mark Ormrod (5) -- A short history of Headley Court and its garden (neither of which is as old as it looks) -- Sockets and stumps and pain -- PTSD (trauma reaction) -- The engineer : Dave Henson -- A Centre for Blast Injury Studies -- Mark Ormrod (6) -- Sockets and stumps and science -- Complex outcomes, chronic pain and PTSD -- Epilogue : medics. | |
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