Military Medicine to Win Hearts and Minds: Aid to Civilians in the Vietnam War

by Robert J. Wilensky

Book Overview

American soldiers have provided medical aid to civilians in many wars, and no less in the Vietnam War, where there were more than forty million contacts between U.S. medical personnel and Vietnamese civilians. Robert J. Wilensky, using data derived from extensive archival research as well as his personal experience in Vietnam, shows how medical aid to Vietnamese civilians, at first based simply on good will, became policy. The original Medical Civic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896725324
• ISBN13: 9780896725324
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"