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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459090803321

Autore

Wintermute Bobby A.

Titolo

Public health and the U.S. military : a history of the Army Medical Department, 1818-1917 / / Bobby A. Wintermute

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-89268-0

1-282-92990-9

9786612929908

0-203-84059-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in American history ; ; 3

Disciplina

355.3/45097309034

Soggetti

Medicine, Military - United States - History

Military hygiene - History

Public health - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



even today. The US Army Medical Department exerted tremendous influence on the methods adopted by the nation's leading civilian public health figures and agencies at the turn of the twentieth century.Public Health and the