The Medical Department: Medical Service in the War Against Japan - Couverture rigide

Condon-Rall, Mary Ellen; Cowdrey, Albert E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0160492653 ISBN 13 : 9780160492655

Editeur : United States Government Printing, 1998

Synopsis

Book by SN 008029003350 CondonRall Mary Ellen

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Mary Ellen Condon-Rall was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she received her primary and secondary education. She earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees respectively from Molloy College for Women and Fordham University, both in the New York area, and her Ph.D. degree from the University College of the University of London in England. Beginning in 1972, she started her career as a historian with The Historical Unit of the U.S. Army Medical Department and, in 1976, when The Historical Unit was absorbed, moved to the U.S. Army Center of Military History. In 1990 Dr. Condon-Rall was awarded a one-year Secretary of the Army Research and Study Fellowship. She is the author of Disaster on Green Ramp: The Army’s Response; a monograph on host nation medical support during the Persian Gulf war; a chapter on the history of military anesthesia in the Anesthesia and Perioperative Care of the Combat Casualty volume of The Textbook of Military Medicine; and a chapter on the U.S. Army and the fight against malaria in the forthcoming work Science and the Pacific War. She also has contributed numerous articles on military medicine and naval history in American, British, and Australian journals. Albert E. Cowdrey was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and received his education from the schools in that city and from Tulane and Johns Hopkins Universities. He served in the Army as an enlisted man during the years 1957–59. After teaching at Tulane University and at Louisiana State University, he joined the staff of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers historical office and, since 1978, that of the U.S. Army Center of Military History, from where he retired in 1993. His interest in southern history brought him the American Historical Association’s Herbert Feis Award in 1984, and his prizewinning history of Army medicine in the Korean War, The Medics’ War, has been widely adopted as a text in military medical schools. Dr. Cowdrey is the coauthor of The Medical Department: Medical Service in the European Theater of Operations and author of Fighting for Life: American Military Medicine in World War II. He also has published many articles on a variety of historical topics in American, British, Canadian, and international journals.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Medical Service in the War Against Japan is one of three volumes recounting the organizational and operational overseas activities of the U.S. Army Medical Department during World War II. In the context of fierce combat operations waged in the joint/combined command Asian-Pacific theaters extending from Australia to Alaska and from the Gilbert Islands to Burma, Mary Ellen Condon-Rall and Albert E. Cowdrey describe how the Army's senior medical officers pooled their talents with the scientific knowledge of the day and overcame vast distances, diverse climates, logistical problems, and rapidly changing circumstances to support and maintain the strength of troops fighting in remote disease-ridden environments. In the course of the war against Japan, these dedicated professionals realized significant advances in military medicine, developing new drugs and techniques for preventing and controlling disease, fielding hospitals and units uniquely equipped to support jungle and island fighting, and perfecting amphibious medical support. Flexible organization, ingenuity, and the latest scientific advances helped medical personnel to support infantry combat teams on isolated islands or in dense jungles, to prevent and control disease, to adapt medical care for amphibious operations, and to treat and evacuate casualties over difficult terrain and then by sea or air.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: United States Government Printing
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0160492653
• ISBN 13: 9780160492655
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible