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History 364/H546 |
DR. SCHNEIDER |
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History of Medicine and Public Health |
The overall question is to assess the role of medicine in war and the impact of war on medicine.
John Keegan, "Introduction," A History of Military
Medicine, Richard A. Gabriel and Karen S. Metz (1994), vol
1: xi-xiii
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How has the definition of war, from the medical viewpoint, changed over time?
What does the author mean when he says the 19th and 20th centuries have witnessed a race between the ability to wound and the ability to heal? What were the main "advances" on the two sides?
Roger Cooter, "Medicine and the Goodness of War ," Can Bull Med Hist. 1990;7(2):147-59
What is the "single, simple, commonplace" view of the relation between war and medicine? What are some criticisms of this view?
How does Cooter show that the divide between war and peace, military and non-military medicine is not so clear-cut?
"Foreward", and Chester S. Keefer, "Penicillin:
A Wartime Achievement," in Advances in Military Medicine,
eds. E.C. Andrus et al. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1948), 1:xli-xlviii;
2: 717-22
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What did the U.S. Committee on Medical Research (CMR) do during World War II? What were its six divisions? Give examples of investigative missions it sent to diferent parts of the world.
What does work on penicillin during WWII reveal about the relationship between war and medicine? What was the main problem in the development of lenecillin and how was it solved? What would have happened if there had been no war?
Note: check the websites on the two world wars and medicine.At least browse through some of the sources and use for a summary if you like.
World
War I: The medical Front
U.S.
Army Medical Department in WWII