Providing for the casualties of war the American experience through World War II
War has always been a dangerous business, bringing injury, wounds, and death, and -- until recently -- often disease. What has changed over time, most dramatically in the last 150 or so years, is the care these casualties receive and who provides it. Medical services have become highly organized and...
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RAND
2013©2013, 2013
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : looking to the past for lessons ... to apply in the future
- Evolution of the European system of providing for casualties : Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance
- Evolution of the European system of providing for casualties in the Age of Enlightenment : France and Britain as the antecedents of the American system of care
- The American system of providing for the wounded evolves
- The Civil War
- From the Civil War to the World War
- The World War
- World War II
- Summary : What happened?
- -What have we learned?
- -How did we get here?
- Includes bibliographical references