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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462810003321

Autore

Gabriel Richard A.

Titolo

Between flesh and steel : a history of military medicine from the Middle Ages to the war in Afghanistan / / Richard A. Gabriel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : Potomac Books, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-61234-421-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Disciplina

616.98023

Soggetti

Medicine, Military

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

The emergence of modern warfare : 1453 to the twenty-first century -- The Renaissance and the rebirth of the empirical spirit -- The seventeenth century : gunpowder and slaughter -- The eighteenth century : the first effective military medical systems -- The nineteenth century : the age of amputation -- Military medicine in the twentieth century : the emergence of modern military medicine -- Military medicine in the twenty-first century : unconventional warfare -- Some thoughts on war.

Sommario/riassunto

""War is the slaughter bench of history""--Hegel