Full Description
Standing armies and navies brought with them military medical establishments, shifting the focus of disease management from individuals to groups. Prevention, discipline, and surveillance produced results, and career opportunities for physicians and surgeons. All these developments had an impact on medicine and society, and were in turn influenced by them. The essays within examine these phenomena, exploring the imperial context, nursing and medicine in Britain, naval medicine, as well as the relationship between medicine, the state and society.
British Military and Naval Medicine challenges the notion that military medicine was, in all respects, 'a good thing'. The so-called monopoly of military medicine and the authoritarian structures within the military were complex and, at times, successfully contested. Sometimes changes were imposed that cannot be characterised as improvements.
British Military and Naval Medicine also points to opportunities for further research in this exciting field of study.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
Geoffrey L. HUDSON, Introduction: British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830
J.D. ALSOP, Warfare and the Creation of British Imperial Medicine, 1600-1800
Paul E. KOPPERMAN, The British Army in North America and the West Indies, 1755-83: A Medical Perspective
Mark HARRISON, Disease and Medicine in the Armies of British India, 1750-1830: The Treatment of Fevers and the Emergence of Tropical Therapeutics
Eric GRUBER VON ARNI, Who Cared? Military Nursing during the English Civil Wars and Interregnum, 1642-60
Philip R. MILLS, Privates on Parade: Soldiers, Medicine and the Treatment of Inguinal Hernias in Georgian England
Patricia Kathleen CRIMMIN, British Naval Health, 1700-1800: Improvement over Time?
Margarette LINCOLN, The Medical Profession and Representations of the Navy, 1750-1815
Christine STEVENSON, From Palace to Hut: The Architecture of Military and Naval Medicine
Geoffrey L. HUDSON, Internal Influences in the Making of the English Military Hospital: The Early-Eighteenth-Century Greenwich
Notes on Contributors
Index
