Fighting Fit: Health, Medicine and War in the Twentieth Century

by Kevin Brown and Kevin Brown

The 20th century saw two world wars and many other conflicts characterized by technological change and severity of casualties. Medicine has adapted quickly to deal with such challenges and new medical innovations in the military field have had advantages in civil medicine. There has thus been interplay between war and medicine that has not only been confined to the armed forces and military medicine, but which has impacted on health and medicine for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750946490
• ISBN13: 9780750946490
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 306 Pages