Radiology in World War II

RENAL INJURIES IN MASHHAD UNIVERSITY DURING THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR. A COMPARISON WITH WORLD WARS I AND II, AND VIETNAM

Missile injuries of the kidney are rare even in wartime. Of 4500 patients admitted to the Ghaem Medical Center in the first two years of the Iran-Iraq war, only 96 had injuries of the genitourinary tract (2.1 %) and only 35 involved the kidney usually with multiple injuries to other viscera. The mortality for those with urogenital injuries was 8.3% (compared with World War I, 60% and World...

American Self-Identification: A Strategy of Maintenance

Scalpel or rays? Radiotherapy and the struggle for the cancer patient in pre-second world war Germany.

Cancer treatment generally comes in four modalities.' Traditionally, surgery of tumours was the most important, while radiotherapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy were introduced as new forms of treatment in the course of the twentieth century. Although chemotherapy and immunotherapy did not become standard until after the Second World War, X-rays and radium were used as alternatives to the sur...

دولت ملت‌سازی در جهان اسلام و سیاست جهانی آمریکا در دوران معاصر

After World War II, United States became a global superpower in the world. Although with having little experience in the war with other countries and the emergence of new states in these countries, the US entered the realm of nation-building with the change of government in Germany and Japan. The establishment of the United Nations at this time did not contribute much to the issue of nation-sta...

Chapter 6 A PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL OF COMBAT STRESS

134 Manuel Bromberg Soldiers Resting on Omaha Beach, Normandy 1945 Manuel Bromberg was a member of the War Artist Unit for England and Ireland during World War II and was present during the invasion of Normandy. He does an exceptional job of visualizing the variables of combat stress (the individual, the unit, and the battlefield) in this watercolor of three exhausted soldiers from World War II...