Between Flesh and Steel

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Author: Richard A. Gabriel | Language: English | ISBN: B00AZKWQYS | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Over the last five centuries, the development of modern weapons and warfare has created an entirely new set of challenges for practitioners in the field of military medicine. Between Flesh and Steel traces the historical development of military medicine from the Middle Ages to modern times.

Military historian Richard A. Gabriel focuses on three key elements: the modifications in warfare and weapons whose increased killing power radically changed the medical challenges that battle surgeons faced in dealing with casualties, advancements in medical techniques that increased the effectiveness of military medical care, and changes that finally brought about the establishment of military medical care systems in modern times. Other topics include the rise of the military surgeon, the invention of anesthesia, and the emergence of such critical disciplines as military psychiatry and bacteriology. The approach is chronological—century by century and war by war, including Iraq and Afghanistan—and cross-cultural in that it examines developments in all of the major armies of the West: British, French, Russian, German, and American.

Between Flesh and Steel is the most comprehensive book on the market about the evolution of modern military medicine.

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• File Size: 1691 KB
• Print Length: 318 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1612344208
• Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.; 1 edition (January 31, 2013)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00AZKWQYS
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• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #329,903 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

The first major portion of this book speaks mostly of technological advances of warfare, and not the treatment of war wounds and injuries. Makes for a slow read for someone who bought the book to read about medical care and really doesn't need a history lesson.

By John Miller

This volume is a well-done survey of military medicine as it evolved in Europe, Russia and the United States. The tables summarizing battle mortality statistics would be useful to anyone establishing context for a particular era. The reader will find a highly readable synopsis of Civil War Union Army mortality and morbidity statistics on pages 163-173. The marked contrasts in field hygiene noted in Chapters 2, 3 and 6 explain much about variance in disease-related mortality across nations. The one thing I would like to have seen, and did not find, was a discussion of the impact of military medicine decisions on medical ethics.

By Linda Ruholl

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