| Description |
1 online resource (333 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; List of appendices; Introduction; Chapter I Doctors and the Army, 1854-1914:The Struggle for Recognition; Chapter 2 The Medical Volunteers:The Recruitment of Medical Officers, 1914-1916; Chapter 3 Medical Practitioners and Compulsory Service,1916-1918; Chapter 4 Medical Students and Military Service; Chapter 5 Medical Women and War Service; Chapter 6 RAMC Administration on the Western Front; Chapter 7 Doctors and Military Medicine:The Training of Medical Officers; Chapter 8 The Way of the Wounded:The Medical Officer's Work from Front to Base |
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Chapter 9 The Fight against DiseaseConclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Doctors played a bigger role in the First World War than in any other previous conflict. This reflected not only the War's unprecedented scale but a growing recognition of the need for proper medical cover. The RAMC had to be expanded to meet the needs of Britain's citizen army. As a result by 1918 some 13,000 doctors were on active service - over half the nation's doctors. Strangely, historians have largely neglected the work of doctors during the War. Doctors in the Great War brings to light the thoughts and motivations of doctors who served in 1914-1918, by drawing on a wealth of personal |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical Corps.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical Corps fast |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care.
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Physicians -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Military.
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Medical care
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Physicians
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781473832923 |
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1473832926 |
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1783461748 |
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9781783461745 |
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