War, medicine and modernity

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War, medicine and modernity

edited by Roger Cooter, Mark Harrison and Steve Sturdy

Sutton, 1999

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Includes bibliography and index

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This is an assessment of the crucial inteconnections between war, medicine and "modernity". Covering the period from 1870 to 1945, beginning with the Franco-Prussian War and ending with World War II, it spans not only the birth of modern warfare but also one of the most critical periods in the emergence of modern society. Using perspectives from medical history, particularly on the body, disease concepts, the relationship between knowledge and organization and the ideology of management, contributors here demonstrate the importance of the interaction between war and medicine in the development of the modern world. War is not treated as an extraordinary episode distinct from civil life, but as an integral aspect of the making of social modernity. This volume highlights the practice of medicine as a crucial element in the social changes brought about by the conduct of modern warfare. The essays reveal how concepts and practices in military medicine both reflect and influence the prevailing concerns of civilian medicine.

Table of Contents

  • The Red cross flag in the Franco-Prussian War - civilians, humanitarians and war in the "modern age", Bertrand Taithe
  • striving to be separate? - civilian and military doctors in Cape Town during the Anglo-Boer War, Molly Sutphen
  • war as experiment - physiology innovation and administration in Britain, 1914-1918 - the case of chemical warfare, Steve Sturdy
  • "soldier's heart" - the redefinition of heart diseasea and specialty formation in early 20th-century Great Britain, Joel D. Howell
  • physicians and citizens - US medical women and military service in World War I, Kimberley Jensen
  • malingering in modernity - psychological scripts and adversarial encounters during World War I, Roger Cooter
  • status, manpower and mental fitness - mental deficiency during World War I, Mathew Thomson
  • sex, medicine and morality during World War I, Lutz D.H. Sauerteig
  • fighting militarism? - British nursing during World War II
  • fighting research - army participation in the clinical testing and mass production of penicillin during World War II, Peter Neushul
  • disciplining the emotions - fear, psychiatry and World War II, Joanna Bourke.

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