Morale in battle--the medical and the military.

نویسنده

  • Carver
چکیده

When the previous Surgeon-General, Sir Cameron Moffat, invited me to give this lecture, I had just finished writing a book about the development of the armed • forces of the major military nations in the 20th century, and in doing so had become more aware of the great changes that have occurred during this century in attitudes to death, injury, disease and war. At the beginning of the century, the possibility of death at an • early age was still something that was accepted as part of the inevitable pattern of life, whether it occurred through disease, accidental injury or war. War itself was even regarded in many countries, including our own at least as late as 1916, as ennobling. It is almost inconceivable to think of a young man today writing • about going to war in the terms in which Rupert Brooke did in 1914 in his poem 'Peace'.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

دوره 135 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1989