Heyman, Neil M. (2002). Daily life during World War 1. United States: Navel War College
This book details how life on the home front changed in myriad ways, including the education of children, the fevered prosperity of a wartime economy, and the change in women’s traditional roles from homemaker to essential laborer. It also includes the medical system for treating casualties and the care called rehabilitation. It tells about the experience of military nurses and the first women in uniform. The author has written two earlier books on world War 1. It’s written in a clear style that makes it easy and follow. Each chapter of the book focuses on different topics.
Ashley Ekins. (1940-1975). War Wounds. Official History of Australia’s Involvement.
This book is a collection of chapters by historians, medical practitioners and researches, former and serving military medical officers, surgeons, nurses and veterans, who explore the impact of war, wounds and trauma through the historical record, reported narratives and personal experiences. In addition it includes several personal stories in which veterans describe their experiences of injury and recovery. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in warfare medicine, if casual or professional.
Ira Rutkow. (2010). Seeking the cure. Illustrated history: New York Times
The book touches such diverse topics as smallpox and the Revolutionary War, the establishment of the first medical schools, medicine during the Civil War, railroad medicine and the beginnings of specialization, the rise of the medical-industrial complex, and the thrilling yet costly advent of modern disease-curing technologies utterly, such as gene therapies, body scanners, and robotic surgeries.In our time of spirited national debate over the future of American health care amid a seemingly infinite flow of new medical discoveries and pharmaceutical products, Rutkow's account provides readers with an essential historic,