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Author O'Keefe, Brendan, 1950- author

Title Medicine at war : medical aspects of Australia's involvement in Southeast Asia 1950-1972 / Brendan G. O'Keefe ; with agent orange : the Australian aftermath / F.B. Smith
Published St. Leonards, N.S.W : Allen & Unwin in association with the Australian War Memorial, 1994
©1994

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Description xxx, 505 pages : illustrations, diagrams, graphs ; 25 cm
regular print
Series Official history of Australia's involvement in Southeast Asian conflicts, 1948-1975
Official history of Australia's involvement in Southeast Asian conflicts, 1948-1975.
Summary "Medicine at War is the third volume of the Official History of Australia's involvement in Southeast Asian conflicts from 1948-1975. It deals with medical aspects of Australia's military involvement in the Malayan Emergency, the Indonesian-Malaysian Confrontation and the Vietnam War. Spanning the period from the initial despatch of Australian service personnel to Malaya in 1950 to the aftermath of Vietnam, the book details the medical experiences of the Australian Army in all three conflicts, as well as those of the Royal Australian Air Force in Malaya and Vietnam, and the Royal Australian Navy in its operations in Vietnamese waters. The volume presents for the first time a comprehensive account of the range of injuries and diseases to which Australian servicemen and servicewomen were exposed in Southeast Asia, and documents the measures that were taken to provide them with medical services. A special section of the book, written by F. B. Smith, a distinguished historian of medical issues, analyses the Agent Orange controversy that followed the Vietnam War." "Medicine at War draws upon an immense range of published and unpublished material, including archival sources and specialist medical literature, much of it hitherto unknown and inaccessible to the general public. Eschewing technical language wherever possible, the book transforms this highly complex material into a clear and readable narrative. Sensitive and controversial medical issues, such as the control of sexually transmitted diseases, the prevention and treatment of multi-drug-resistant malaria and the effects of exposure to chemical agents in Vietnam, are explained with clarity and precision."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis Agent Orange
Australian Army
Health care
History
Medical procedures
Statistics
Tropical diseases
Vietnam War
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 478-491) and index
Notes The official history of Australia's involvement in Southeast Asian conflicts 1948-1975 no:3
Subject Agent Orange -- Toxicology.
Agent Orange.
Medicine, Military -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Health aspects -- Australia.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Medical care -- Australia.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Medical care.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Participation, Australian.
Military Medicine -- history.
Defoliants, Chemical.
Epidemiology.
SUBJECT Australia -- Armed Forces http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004658 -- Medical care http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005607 -- Southeast Asia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008627
Australia -- Armed Forces http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004658 -- Medical care. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005607
Australia -- Armed Forces http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004658 -- Foreign service http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005831 -- Southeast Asia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008627
Malaysia -- History -- Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85080083 -- Medical care. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005607
Malaysia -- History -- Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85080083 -- Participation, Australian. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002005439
Malaysia -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115795 -- Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960 -- Medical care
Malaysia -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115795 -- Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960 -- Participation, Australian
Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315
Asia, Southeastern. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001210
Asia, Southeastern. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001210
Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315
Author Smith, F. B. (Francis Barrymore), 1932- Agent orange : the Australian afternath
Australian War Memorial.
LC no. 94239250
ISBN 1863733019
Other Titles Agent Orange: the Australian aftermath
Medical aspects of Australia's involvment in Southeast Asia, 1950-1972