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Author Gabriel, Richard A.

Title Between flesh and steel : a history of military medicine from the Middle Ages to the war in Afghanistan / Richard A. Gabriel
Published Dulles : Potomac Books Inc., 2013

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Contents Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; 1 The Emergence of Modern Warfare: 1453 to the Twenty-First Century; 2 The Renaissance and the Rebirth of the Empirical Spirit; 3 The Seventeenth Century: Gunpowder and Slaughter; 4 The Eighteenth Century: The First Effective Military Medical Systems; 5 The Nineteenth Century: The Age of Amputation; 6 The Twentieth Century: The Emergence of Modern Military Medicine; 7 The Twenty-First Century: Unconventional Warfare; 8 Some Thoughts on War; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
Summary "War is the slaughter bench of history"--Hegel
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
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Subject Medicine, Military -- History
Military Medicine -- history
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
History, Modern 1601-
Warfare
Weapons -- history
Wounds and Injuries -- surgery
REFERENCE -- Bibliographies & Indexes.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Contagious.
MEDICAL -- Infectious Diseases.
Medicine, Military
Militärmedizin
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781612344218
1612344216