MEDICAL RESEARCH IN WAR

Post-War Medical Resettlement

The immediate post-war period following a modern war brings in its train many complications and difficulties ; much planning and thought ; not a little heart-burning, worry, and doubt. Though there is no longer danger and destruction ; nevertheless, sometimes a new fear is born. What is to happen to me after the war ? How shall I find my feet in civil life again ? Shall I find employment or sha...

Medical Diseases of War

Medical Diseases of War

Medical anthropology against war.

In my 2006 presidential address on “Medical Anthropology at the Intersections,” I attempted to convey all of my high hopes for medical anthropology in the new millennium (Inhorn 2007). We are nearly 50 years old as a discipline, and we are on the verge of numerous, exciting intersections with multiple fields. At the 2007 meeting, I announced our plans for the first independent Society for Medic...

Medical Diseases of War

on diphtheria. The former is written by Dr. Melville D. Mackenzie, whose experience of the disease in all parts of the world is unique among British physicians. Dr. E. H. R. Harries has written the chapter on diphtheria, which has proved to be one of the major medical problems in the Middle East.' ' The most important additions to this edition apart from those already mentioned are in connectio...