The Army Medical Department, 1917-1941
Electronic resources
Record details
- ISBN: 0160839696
- ISBN: 016083970X
- ISBN: 9780160839696
- ISBN: 9780160839702
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1 online resource (xx, 644 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps. - Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army, 2009.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Print version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-620) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword -- Author -- Preface -- Prologue: Possibility of war -- 1: Day Has Come -- First steps -- Surgeon General -- Organizing the Surgeon General's office -- Training -- Base hospitals -- Medical supply -- Preparing to prevent disease -- Preparing for gas warfare -- Yanks are coming -- 2: Organizational Turmoil -- Surgeon General's role -- Personnel division -- Division of sanitation -- Finance and supply and administrative divisions -- Museum and library division -- Hospital division -- Division of special hospitals and physical reconstruction -- Professional services -- Division of Roentgenology -- Division of gas defense -- Division of food and nutrition -- Air service medical -- 3: Training For War -- Medical officers training camps -- Training camp programs -- Specialty training -- Army medical school -- Other special schools and programs -- Focus on flight surgeons -- 4: Mobilization Camps -- Preparatory stage -- Camp medical organization -- Medical supply -- Medical screening -- Medical personnel training -- 5: Communicable Diseases On The Rise -- Preventive medicine -- Hospitalization and treatment -- Influenza epidemic -- 6: Embarkation Challenges -- Organizing the system -- New York City area -- Newport news area -- On the transports -- 7: Theater Chief Surgeon's Office -- Command and control -- Promotion dilemma -- Gas warfare division -- Hospitalization division -- Personnel division -- Sanitation division -- Division of laboratories and infectious diseases -- Supply division -- Records and correspondence division -- Veterinary division -- 8: Services Of Supply Medical Activities -- Managing port congestion -- Establishing hospitals and laboratories -- Organizing medical supply -- Educating medical personnel -- 9: Zone Of The Armies Medical Activities -- Divisional medical organization -- Advance section training camps -- Trench warfare lessons -- Poison gas attacks -- 10: On The Eve Of New Battles -- Organizational changes -- St Mihiel medical support -- Meuse-Argonne medical support -- 11: Medical Burdens Of Hard Fighting -- Hospitalization -- Evacuation -- Health of aviators -- Medical supply -- Field instruction -- Preventive medicine --12: Challenges In Other Theaters -- In North Russia -- In Siberia -- In Germany -- In Poland -- In the Caribbean and the Pacific -- 13: Going Home -- Demobilization process -- Transporting the disabled -- Hospital system -- Specialized care and reconstruction -- 14: Peacetime Form -- Impact of new legislation -- Surgeon General -- Surgeon General's office -- Personnel shortages -- Promotion, ranks and status -- Medical reserve corps -- 15: Peacetime Function -- Training -- Care of the sick and wounded -- Aviation medicine -- Preventive medicine -- Research -- In retrospect -- 16: Discouraging Doldrums -- Surgeons General -- Surgeon General's office -- Personnel -- Supply -- Hospitals -- Training -- Air Corps medical service -- Administering the CCC -- Overseas possessions -- State of medicine -- 17: Drift Toward War -- Army mobilizes -- SGO reorganizes -- Departmental expansion -- Personnel -- Training -- Supply -- Hospitals -- Air Corps medical service -- Preventive medicine surge -- Epilogue: Department in retrospect -- Bibliography -- List of abbreviations -- Index. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. |
System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Center of Military History website, viewed May 31, 2017). |
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Subject: | United States. Army. Medical Department History 20th century Medicine, Military United States History 20th century World War, 1914-1918 Medical care United States |
Additional Physical Form Titles
Army Medical Department, 1917-1941. |