Название: Military Medicine: From Ancient Times to the 21st CenturyАвтор: Jack E. McCallum
Издательство: ABC-CLIO
Год: 2008
Формат: PDF
Размер: 35 Мб
Язык: английский / English
This volume highlights the people and scientific developments in military medicine through the ages, concentrating on medical advances that changed both warfare and societies at home. With entries ranging from a history of the X-ray to biographies of classic Greek physicians, such as Asclepiades of Bithynia, this useful and engaging work is as much a history of all types of medicine as of military medicine in particular. McCallum, currently a visiting scholar and history professor and author of several works of history and the history of medicine, is a former neurosurgeon.
The volume opens with an excellent overview essay, which provides a succinct history of medicine. The essay is followed by more than 200 separate entries, most around one to two pages in length and supplemented by a selection of black-and-white illustrations. Nearly every entry ends with a list of sources. Numerous cross-references are scattered throughout the text. Other finding aids include a listing of the entries at the beginning of the encyclopedia and an index at the end. Following the entries is an extensive annotated bibliography, which would serve as a good source for further research or collection development. This encyclopedia will be an essential reference work for military and medical libraries and is recommended as well for all academic libraries and large public libraries with medical-history collections. --Jessica Moyer