French colonial medicine is only a short part of French military medicine: three quarters of a century. The officers cadets often belonged to the plebeian elite of the Third Republic, and were educated at the Faculty of Medicine in Bordeaux. They left for oversea territories where they brought a humanistic message on behalf of their country. Some academic classes lost within two decades as many...

Because the goal of military medicine is salvaging the wounded who can return to duty, military medical ethics cannot easily defend devoting scarce resources to those so badly injured that they cannot return to duty. Instead, arguments turn to morale and political obligation to justify care for the seriously wounded. Neither argument is satisfactory. Care for the wounded is not necessary to mai...

1 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Hradec Kralove, Rokitanskeho 62, 500 03 Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic 2 Department of Military Hygiene, Faculty of Military Health Sciences, University of Defence, Trebesska 1575, 500 01 Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic 3 Biomedical Research Center, University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Sokolska 581, 500 05 Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to demonstrate the association between nurse staffing and adverse events at the shift level. BACKGROUND Despite a growing body of research linking nurse staffing and patient outcomes, the relationship of staffing to patient falls and medication errors remains equivocal, possibly due to dependence on aggregated data. METHODS Thirteen military hospita...

Biotechnology has an increasingly extensive use for military purposes. With the upcoming age of biotechnology, military operations are depending more on biotechnical methods. Judging from the evolving law of the theory of command, the command of biotechnology is feasible and inevitable. The report discusses some basic characteristics of modern theories of command, as well as the mature possibil...

packaging signs and symbols in military products is an important requirement in their optimum applications. by choosing better ways in military packaging and utilization of standards in signing, significant results in logistic cycle improvement and military satisfaction will be gained. this paper describes the importance and criteria in signing military products. at the end of this article, the...

here, to the status of medical practitioners they were granted at the time. Sceptical of the claim of doctors to a superior skill, Jones presents the conflict as one of power and gender, rather than as a clash between science and superstition Beside filling a wide gap in our knowledge of the historical reality of hospitals, the book is a major contribution to the reassessment of prevailing assu...

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