War, Medicine and Modernity

The interconnections between war, medicine, society and "modernity" are explored by a team of international scholars in this thought-provoking text which spans the emergence of modern warfare from the Franco-Prussion War in 1870 to World War II.

List of Contributors
Of War, Medicine and Modernity: Introduction	p. 1
The Red Cross Flag in the Franco-Prussian War: Civilians, Humanitarians and War in the 'Modern Age'	p. 22
Striving to be Separate? Civilian and Military Doctors in Cape Town during the Anglo-Boer War	p. 48
War as Experiment. Physiology, Innovation and Administration in Britain, 1914-1918: The Case of Chemical Warfare	p. 65
'Soldier's Heart': The Redefinition of Heart Disease and Speciality Formation in Early Twentieth-century Great Britain	p. 85
Physicians and Citizens: Us Medical Women and Military service in the First World War	p. 106
Malingering in Modernity: Psychological Scripts and Adversarial Encounters during the First World War	p. 125
Status, Manpower and Mental Fitness: Mental Deficiency in the First World War	p. 149
Sex, Medicine and Morality during the First World War	p. 167
Fighting Militarism? British Nursing during the Second World War	p. 189
Fighting Research: Army Participation in the Clinical Testing and Mass Production of Pencillin during the Second World War	p. 203
Disciplining the Emotions: Fear, Psychiatry and the Second World War	p. 225
Bibliography	p. 239
Index	p. 253
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