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This represents the first major history of British medicine during the Second World War. It shows how medicine gave the British a crucial edge in several theatres, by preventing losses from disease and returning the sick and wounded to active service. Drawing on a wide range of official and non-official sources, the book examines medical work in all the main theatres of the war, from the front line to the base hospital. - ;Medicine and Victory is the first comprehensive account of British military medicine in the Second World War since the publication of the official history in the early 1950s

World War, 1939-1945 --- Medicine, Military --- War --- Military medicine --- Medicine --- Medicine, Naval --- Military hospitals --- Military hygiene --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Medicine and war --- War and medicine --- Medical care --- History --- Medical aspects. --- Medical aspects --- Relief of sick and wounded --- Medical care.

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"Standard histories of medicine celebrate brilliant Westerners such as Florence Nightingale and John Snow. In this unorthodox telling, Jim Downs turns our focus to another key group of contributors: the subjugated peoples-forced into close quarters by enslavement and empire-whose bodies were the experimental matter on which medical progress relied"--

Epidemiology --- Slaves --- Imperialism and science --- War --- Science and imperialism --- Science --- History --- Health and hygiene --- Medical aspects --- Medicine and war --- War and medicine --- Medicine, Military --- Imperialism and science. --- History. --- Health and hygiene. --- Medical aspects. --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Slavery --- Diseases --- Public health --- Enslaved persons. --- Épidémiologie --- Médecine --- Esclaves --- Colonisation --- Guerres --- history. --- Histoire. --- Santé et hygiène. --- Aspect médical. --- Épidémiologie --- Médecine --- Santé et hygiène. --- Aspect médical.

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National Center for Military Deployment Health Research (U.S.). --- Occupational Exposure --- Military Medicine --- Government Programs --- Research --- Combat Disorders --- Veterans --- Environmental Exposure --- Social Sciences --- Stress Disorders, Traumatic --- Medicine --- Science --- Persons --- Named Groups --- Health Occupations --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Environmental Pollution --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Anxiety Disorders --- Mental Disorders --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Public Health --- Environment and Public Health --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Health Care --- Military Administration --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- War --- Medical care --- Medical aspects. --- National Center for Military Deployment Health Research (U.S.) --- Medicine and war --- War and medicine --- United States. --- Medicine, Military --- Health Workforce

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A startling narrative revealing the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I. The Great War of 1914-1918 burst on the European scene with a brutality to mankind not yet witnessed by the civilized world. Modern warfare was no longer the stuff of chivalry and honor; it was a mutilative, deadly, and humbling exercise to wipe out the very presence of humanity. Suddenly, thousands upon thousands of maimed, beaten, and bleeding men surged into aid stations and hospitals with injuries unimaginable in their scope and destruction. Doctors scrambled to find some way to salvage not only life but limb. The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine provides a startling and graphic account of the efforts of teams of doctors and researchers to quickly develop medical and surgical solutions. Those problems of gas gangrene, hemorrhagic shock, gas poisoning, brain trauma, facial disfigurement, broken bones, and broken spirits flooded hospital beds, stressing caregivers and prompting medical innovations that would last far beyond the Armistice of 1918 and would eventually provide the backbone of modern medical therapy. Thomas Helling's description of events that shaped refinements of medical care is a riveting account of the ingenuity and resourcefulness of men and women to deter the total destruction of the human body and human mind. His tales of surgical daring, industrial collaboration, scientific discovery, and utter compassion provide an understanding of the horror that laid a foundation for the medical wonders of today. The marvels of resuscitation, blood transfusion, brain surgery, X-rays, and bone setting all had their beginnings on the battlefields of France. The influenza contagion in 1918 was an ominous forerunner of the frightening pandemic of 2020-2021. For anyone curious about the true terrors of war and the miracles of modern medicine, this is a must read.

World War, 1914-1918 --- War --- Medicine, Military --- Emergency medicine --- Emergency physicians --- Emergency medicine physicians --- Emergency room physicians --- Emergency medical personnel --- Physicians --- Medicine, Emergency --- Medicine --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Medical emergencies --- Military medicine --- Medicine, Naval --- Military hospitals --- Military hygiene --- Medicine and war --- War and medicine --- Field hospitals --- Hospital service (War) --- Hospitals, Field --- Wounded in battle --- Medical care --- Relief of sick and wounded --- Relief of sick and wounded&delete& --- History --- Medical aspects --- Armed conflict (War) --- Conflict, Armed (War) --- Fighting --- Hostilities --- Wars --- International relations --- Military art and science --- History.

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Working in a world of hurt fills a significant gap in the studies of the psychological trauma wrought by war by focusing not on soldiers, but on the men and women who fought to save them in casualty clearing stations, hospitals and prison camps. Through a rich analysis of both published and unpublished personal accounts by doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and other medical personnel from the major wars of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Acton and Potter uncover a spectrum of responses to what was often unimaginable suffering, which ranged from breakdown to resilience, from exhausted resignation to firmer belief in humanity despite the brutalities of armed conflict. Organised chronologically, the book examines a broad range of writings and voices that have until now received little attention, including volunteer ambulance drivers in the First World War, POW doctors in the Second World War and medics in the Vietnam War. With a chapter dedicated to the recent narratives of medical personnel in Iraq, the study is highly topical and situates the life-writing from these contemporary wars within a larger tradition of war literature. Wide-ranging in scope and interdisciplinary in methods, Working in a world of hurt puts the letters, diaries and memoirs that chronicle physical and emotional suffering centre stage, many for the first time. These testaments to the torment of combatants also - crucially - bear witness to the harrowing struggles of wartime healers. Scholarly yet accessible, it will appeal to lecturers and students as well as the general reader.

Medicine, Military. --- World War II. --- World War I. --- Vietnam Conflict. --- Personal Narratives as Topic. --- Military Nursing. --- Iraq War, 2003-2011. --- Military Personnel --- Military Medicine. --- Medicine, Military --- Armed Forces personnel --- Members of the Armed Forces --- Military personnel --- Military service members --- Service members --- Servicemen, Military --- Armed Forces --- Anglo-American Invasion of Iraq, 2003-2011 --- Dawn, Operation New, 2010-2011 --- Gulf War II, 2003-2011 --- Iraqi Freedom, Operation, 2003-2010 --- New Dawn, Operation, 2010-2011 --- Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003-2010 --- Operation New Dawn, 2010-2011 --- Operation Telic, 2003-2011 --- Persian Gulf War, 2003-2011 --- Telic, Operation, 2003-2011 --- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 --- Nursing --- Military medicine --- Medicine --- Medicine, Naval --- Military hospitals --- Military hygiene --- War --- psychology. --- Medical aspects --- Relief of sick and wounded --- World War, 1914-1918 --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Personal narratives. --- Vietnam Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese War, 1961-1975 --- History --- Medicine / History of medicine --- HISTORY / Military / General. --- History of medicine. --- Psychological aspects. --- Medical aspects. --- Medicine and war --- War and medicine --- Armed conflict (War) --- Conflict, Armed (War) --- Fighting --- Hostilities --- Wars --- International relations --- Military art and science --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Doctors. --- Life-writing. --- Medical personnel. --- Nurses. --- Resilience. --- Trauma. --- War.