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This volume presents the first scholarly assessment of the interconnections between war, medicine, society and modernity. Covering the period 1870 to 1945, this

A startling narrative revealing the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I. The Gr

After years at the margins of medical history, the relationship between war and medicine is at last beginning to move centre-stage. The essays in this volume fo

Medicine is most often understood through the metaphor of war. We encounter phrases such as "the war against the coronavirus," "the front lines of the Ebola cri

Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science