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Battlefield Medicine: A History of the Military Ambulance from the Napoleonic Wars through World War I

By : John S. Haller Jr.

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In this first history of the military ambulance, historian John S. Haller Jr. documents the development of medical technologies for treating and transporting wounded soldiers on the battlefield. Noting that the word ambulance has been used to refer to both a mobile medical support system and a mode of transport, Haller takes readers back to the origins of the modern ambulance, covering their evolution in depth from the late eighteenth century through World War I.?The rising nationalism, economic and imperial competition, and military alliances and arms races of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries figure prominently in this history of the military ambulance, which focuses mainly on British and American technological advancements. Beginning with changes introduced by Dominique-Jean Larrey during the Napoleonic Wars, the book traces the organizational and technological challenges faced by opposing armies in the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the Franco-Prussian War, and

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Author : John S. Haller Jr.

Pages : 288 pages

Publisher : Southern Illinois University Press

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ISBN-10 : 0809330407

ISBN-13 : 9780809330409

 

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