Military medicine and the hidden costs of war

• Verfasst von: Fazal, Tanisha M. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Military medicine and the hidden costs of war
• Verf.angabe: Tanisha M. Fazal
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 1 online resource
• Illustrationen: illustrations.
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Bridging the gap
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online
• Fussnoten: Also issued in print: 2024. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 1, 2024)
• ISBN: 978-0-19-005756-5
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780190057473.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Warfare and Defence
• Sach-SW: Warfare & defence
• K10plus-PPN: 1892270676
• K10plus-PPN:
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• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

In 'Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War', Tanisha M. Fazal traces the modern history of medical treatment and casualty rates in American conflicts from the Civil War to the more recent counterinsurgency wars. As she shows, wars became increasingly survivable for wounded troops, to the point now where a large majority of wounded soldiers survive. Yet the human and financial implications of this steep increase in the wounded-to-killed ratio are dramatic, and her powerful analysis of this shift provides a necessary corrective to how we understand the costs of war. For each major conflict, Fazal analyzes the weapons used, injuries sustained, and policies put in place for veterans' care and pensions.