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UNINA9910459090803321 |
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Autore |
Wintermute Bobby A. |
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Titolo |
Public health and the U.S. military : a history of the Army Medical Department, 1818-1917 / / Bobby A. Wintermute |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-89268-0 |
1-282-92990-9 |
9786612929908 |
0-203-84059-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (292 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge advances in American history ; ; 3 |
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Soggetti |
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Medicine, Military - United States - History |
Military hygiene - History |
Public health - History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Introduction: Waging Health-The U.S. Army Medical Officer's Quest for Identity and Legitimacy; 1 Practice, Status, Public Health, and the Army Medical Officer, 1818-1890; 2 The Medical Officer in "The New School Of Scientific Medicine," 1861-1898; 3 The Other War of 1898: The Army Medical Department's Struggle with Disease in the Volunteer Camps; 4 Making the Tropics Fit for White Men: Army Public Health in the American Imperial Periphery, 1898-1914 |
5 The Ascendance of Sanitation in the Army Medical Department and the Quest for Preparedness, 1901-19176 Vice and the Soldier: The Army Medical Department and Public Health as Morality, 1890-1917; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Public Health and the US Military is a cultural history of the US Army Medical Department focusing on its accomplishments and organization coincident with the creation of modern public health in the Progressive Era. A period of tremendous social change, this time bore witness to the creation of an ideology of public health that influences public policy |
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