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The history of medicine is the study and documentation of the evolution of medical treatments, practices, and knowledge over time. Medical historians often draw from other humanities fields of study including economics, health sciences , sociology, and politics to better understand the institutions, practices, people, professions, and social ...
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-00-215173-1. Porter, Roy, ed. The Cambridge History of Medicine (2006); 416pp; excerpt and text search. Porter, Roy, ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine (2001) excerpt and text search excerpt and text search
Combat medics attend to Irish casualties following the opening attack of the Battle of Passchendaele, 1917. Battlefield medicine, also called field surgery and later combat casualty care, is the treatment of wounded combatants and non-combatants in or near an area of combat.
7th Medical Battalion, reorganized and redesignated as the 6th Medical Battalion, 1 July 1940 [173] 8th Medical Battalion, 8th Division, redesignated 1st Medical Battalion, 1st Division, 1 July 1940 [174] 11th Medical Battalion, 11th Air Assault Division, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1 July 1965 [177] 12th Medical Battalion, End of World War II [10]
In the British military medical system that developed during the First World War, the FAs formed an intermediate level in the casualty evacuation chain that stretched from the regimental aid posts near the front line and the casualty clearing stations located outside the range of the enemy's artillery.
Aileen Preston, worked for the VAD's Watson Unit, was head of the first autonomous British women’s ambulance unit and was the first woman in history to qualify for the Automobile Association Certificate in Driving; Marjory Stephenson MBE FRS ARRC, biochemist, bacteriologist and one of the first two women elected to the Royal Society in 1945
Medical history taking may also be impaired by various factors impeding a proper doctor-patient relationship, such as transitions to physicians that are unfamiliar to the patient. History taking of issues related to sexual or reproductive medicine may be inhibited by a reluctance of the patient to disclose intimate or uncomfortable information.
During the Spanish–American War, he was made a member of the Medical Reserve Corps and served in Puerto Rico (1898). He was made an honorable F.R.C.S. (London) in 1913. After America entered World War I , he became a major in the medical O.T.C., and professional director (1917–18).