Battlefield medicine : a history of the military ambulance from the Napoleonic Wars through World War I : with a new preface / John S. Haller, Jr.

By:

Haller, John S., Jr, 1940-

Contributor(s):

Haller, John S., Jr, 1940-. Farmcarts to Fords

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Medical humanities seriesPublisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2011Edition: Pbk. edDescription: 1 online resource (xiv, 269 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0809387875
9780809387878
1280697202
9781280697203
9786613674166
6613674168

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Battlefield medicine.DDC classification:

355.3/45 22

LOC classification:

UH500 .H35 2011eb

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Contents:

pt. 1. Early history -- pt. 2. Consolidation -- pt. 3. The Great War.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Early history -- pt. 2. Consolidation -- pt. 3. The Great War.

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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.

English.

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