Between flesh and steel : a history of military medicine from the Middle Ages to the war in Afghanistan / / Richard A. Gabriel
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| Autore: |
Gabriel Richard A.
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| Titolo: |
Between flesh and steel : a history of military medicine from the Middle Ages to the war in Afghanistan / / Richard A. Gabriel
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington, District of Columbia : , : Potomac Books, , [2013] |
| ©2013 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 616.98023 |
| Soggetto topico: | Medicine, Military |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Between flesh and steel |
| ISBN: | 1-61234-421-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808511503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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