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Zusatztext Fiona Reid's wonderful work uncovers the fascinating and often hidden histories of the medical experience during the First World War. By focusing on personal experiences in Britain, Germany and France, she shows us that whilst the exigencies of industrial warfare were paramount, medicine in wartime was shaped and negotiated by both the individual and the personal, by both the carer and the patient. Reid shows us that the results were messy and complex, but always compelling Informationen zum Autor Fiona Reid is Associate Head of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of South Wales, UK, where she teaches modern European History. She is the author of Broken Men: Shell Shock, Treatment and Recovery in Britain, 1914-1930 and a co-author (with Sharif Gemie and Laure Humbert) of Outcast Europe: Refugees and Relief Workers in an Era of Total War, 1936-1948 (2011). Vorwort Explores the history of medical services, health and welfare in Europe during the First World War. Zusammenfassung The casualty rates of the First World War were unprecedented: approximately 10 million combatants were wounded from Britain, France and Germany alone. In consequence, military-medical services expanded and the war ensured that medical professionals became firmly embedded within the armed services. In a situation of total war civilians on the home front came into more contact than before with medical professionals, and even pacifists played a significant medical role. Medicine in First World War Europe re-visits the casualty clearing stations and the hospitals of the First World War, and tells the stories of those who were most directly involved: doctors, nurses, wounded men and their families. Fiona Reid explains how military medicine interacts with the concerns, the cultures and the behaviours of the civilian world, treating the history of wartime military medicine as an integral part of the wider social and cultural history of the First World War. Inhaltsverzeichnis IllustrationsAcknowledgements1. Introduction: War is Good for Medicine2. From the Trench to the Hospital3. Iconic Wounds: Gas, Shell Shock, Facial Injury4. Ordinary Soldiers and Ordinary Pain5. ‘We Did Not Fight’: Medical Pacifism and War6. Lessons and Legacies: ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’NotesBibliographyIndex...
