Public Health and the US Military: A History of the Army Medical Department, 1818-1917

By Bobby A. Wintermute

The first large conceptual overview of the role of the US Army Medical Department in American society during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book details the institutional culture and quest for legitimacy of an institution dedicated to promoting public health and scientific medicine in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415881706
• ISBN13: 9780415881708
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"