The Battlefield Medic: Evolution of United States Military Medicine Throughout History Volume 1

The Battlefield Medic The Evolution of United States Military Medicine Throughout History From Revolutionary War disease prevention to Civil War ambulance wagons, from World War II corpsmen and hospital ships to Korea's MASH units and Vietnam Dustoff helicopters, the history of American military medicine is the history of saving lives under fire. This first volume traces the foundations of United States military medicine and the wars that shaped battlefield care, evacuation, surgery, nursing, blood supply, preventive medicine, Army medics, Navy corpsmen, and forward medical support. It is a story of systems, science, courage, and sacrifice. Most of all, it is the story of those who moved toward the wounded when others could not. The story continues in Volume Two, where modern combat trauma care, Iraq and Afghanistan, pararescue, critical care air transport, prolonged field care, and the future of battlefield medicine carry the mission forward. Someone is wounded. Someone answers.