Desperate Surgery In The Pacific War

Author : Thomas Helling, M.D.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476625676

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Desperate Surgery in the Pacific War by Thomas Helling, M.D. Pdf

Caring for the wounded in the World War II Pacific Theater posed serious challenges to doctors and surgeons. The thick jungles, remote atolls and heavily defended Japanese islands of the Pacific presented dangers to medical personnel never before encountered in modern warfare, as did the devastating new kamikaze attacks. Sophisticated treatments, including complex surgery, were by necessity far removed from the fighting, requiring front line doctors to do the minimum--often under fire--to stabilize patients until they could be evacuated: "damage control," it would later be called. Navy doctors responsible for thousands of sailors aboard fleets in battle found caring for the wounded daunting or nearly impossible. Yet to save lives, medical resources had to be kept as close as possible to the action. This book systematically details the efforts and innovations of the doctors and surgeons who worked to preserve life under extreme peril.

Author : Thomas Helling, M.D.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476664217

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Desperate Surgery in the Pacific War by Thomas Helling, M.D. Pdf

Caring for the wounded in the World War II Pacific Theater posed serious challenges to doctors and surgeons. The thick jungles, remote atolls and heavily defended Japanese islands of the Pacific presented dangers to medical personnel never before encountered in modern warfare, as did the devastating new kamikaze attacks. Sophisticated treatments, including complex surgery, were by necessity far removed from the fighting, requiring front line doctors to do the minimum--often under fire--to stabilize patients until they could be evacuated: "damage control," it would later be called. Navy doctors responsible for thousands of sailors aboard fleets in battle found caring for the wounded daunting or nearly impossible. Yet to save lives, medical resources had to be kept as close as possible to the action. This book systematically details the efforts and innovations of the doctors and surgeons who worked to preserve life under extreme peril.

Author : Thomas S. Helling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1594163200

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The Agony of Heroes by Thomas S. Helling Pdf

From the heat and disease-ridden jungles of Bataan, the precarious beachhead of Anzio, the encircled town of Bastogne, the frozen fields of Chosin, and the forsaken plateau of Khe Sanh, doctors and nurses worked under intense conditions with whatever means at hand, to staunch bleeding, repair damage, and resurrect the dying. The inspirational and compelling stories of the doctors, nurses, corpsmen, aides, and others who braved the most frightening conditions in order to save lives.

Author : Thomas Helling
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781643139005

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The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine by Thomas Helling Pdf

A startling narrative revealing the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I. The Great War of 1914-1918 burst on the European scene with a brutality to mankind not yet witnessed by the civilized world. Modern warfare was no longer the stuff of chivalry and honor; it was a mutilative, deadly, and humbling exercise to wipe out the very presence of humanity. Suddenly, thousands upon thousands of maimed, beaten, and bleeding men surged into aid stations and hospitals with injuries unimaginable in their scope and destruction. Doctors scrambled to find some way to salvage not only life but limb. The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine provides a startling and graphic account of the efforts of teams of doctors and researchers to quickly develop medical and surgical solutions. Those problems of gas gangrene, hemorrhagic shock, gas poisoning, brain trauma, facial disfigurement, broken bones, and broken spirits flooded hospital beds, stressing caregivers and prompting medical innovations that would last far beyond the Armistice of 1918 and would eventually provide the backbone of modern medical therapy. Thomas Helling’s description of events that shaped refinements of medical care is a riveting account of the ingenuity and resourcefulness of men and women to deter the total destruction of the human body and human mind. His tales of surgical daring, industrial collaboration, scientific discovery, and utter compassion provide an understanding of the horror that laid a foundation for the medical wonders of today. The marvels of resuscitation, blood transfusion, brain surgery, X-rays, and bone setting all had their beginnings on the battlefields of France. The influenza contagion in 1918 was an ominous forerunner of the frightening pandemic of 2020-2021. For anyone curious about the true terrors of war and the miracles of modern medicine, this is a must read.

Author : Margaret Sams
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299121445

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Forbidden Family by Margaret Sams Pdf

"Written just five years after the end of World War II, Margaret Sams's memoir testifies in unforgettable detail to life in the internment camps...It is a moving portrait of a woman turning away from conventional morality and struggling with conscience, hunger, disease, and fear. Ultimately, it is a portrait of courage, survival, and love" -- Back of cover.

Author : Justin Barr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Arteries
ISBN : 9781580469661

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Of Life and Limb by Justin Barr Pdf

Examining the history of arterial repair, Of Life and Limb investigates the process of surgical innovation by exploring the social, technological, institutional, and martial dynamics shaping the introduction and adoption of a new operation.

Author : Geoffrey Roecker
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Leaving Mac Behind by Geoffrey Roecker Pdf

"My first telegram came Sep. 3 1942 that my son was missing in action. And the next telegram came Aug. 18 1943 that he was Declared Dead. Till this day I do not know what happened to him." Mrs. Ann M. Lyons, August 7, 1957. Between 1942 and 1944, nearly four hundred Marines virtually vanished in the jungles, seas, and skies of Guadalcanal. They were the victims of enemy ambushes and friendly fire, hard fighting and poor planning, their deaths witnessed by dozens or not at all. They were buried in field graves, in cemeteries as unknowns, or left where they fell. They were classified as "missing," as "not recovered," as "presumed dead." And in the years that followed, their families wondered at their fates and how an administrative decision could close the book on sons, brothers, and husbands without healing the wounds left by their absence. 'Leaving Mac Behind' reconstructs the lives, last moments, and legacies of some of these men. Original records, eyewitness accounts, and recent discoveries shed new light on the lost graves of Guadalcanal's missing Marines--and the ongoing efforts to bring them home.

Author : Chaim M. Rosenberg
Publisher : Wicked Son
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9798888454930

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Shield of David by Chaim M. Rosenberg Pdf

Jews first arrived in the New World in 1654, seeking religious freedom. Since the beginning of American nationhood, Jewish volunteers and conscripts fought in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, on both sides of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, in both World Wars, and in the Korean, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Over the years, the American military learned to integrate its Jewish servicemen and women by providing Jewish military chaplains, kosher food, religious services, and placing the Star of David on the graves of fallen Jewish soldiers. The end of conscription and the establishment of the All-Volunteer Force in 1973 offered other paths to serve our country. American Jews have contributed with distinction in the arts and sciences, academia, entertainment, government, and in building the economy. For Jews, America is the Goldene Medina—the Golden Country.

Author : Jim Auchmutey
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610393553

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The Class of '65 by Jim Auchmutey Pdf

In the midst of racial strife, one young man showed courage and empathy. It took forty years for the others to join him… Being a student at Americus High School was the worst experience of Greg Wittkamper's life. Greg came from a nearby Christian commune, Koinonia, whose members devoutly and publicly supported racial equality. When he refused to insult and attack his school's first black students in 1964, Greg was mistreated as badly as they were: harassed and bullied and beaten. In the summer after his senior year, as racial strife in Americus—and the nation—reached its peak, Greg left Georgia. Forty-one years later, a dozen former classmates wrote letters to Greg, asking his forgiveness and inviting him to return for a class reunion. Their words opened a vein of painful memory and unresolved emotion, and set him on a journey that would prove healing and saddening. The Class of '65 is more than a heartbreaking story from the segregated South. It is also about four of Greg's classmates—David Morgan, Joseph Logan, Deanie Dudley, and Celia Harvey—who came to reconsider the attitudes they grew up with. How did they change? Why, half a lifetime later, did reaching out to the most despised boy in school matter to them? This noble book reminds us that while ordinary people may acquiesce to oppression, we all have the capacity to alter our outlook and redeem ourselves.

Author : Sara Ackerman
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488088568

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The Lieutenant's Nurse by Sara Ackerman Pdf

An Army nurse in Hawaii grapples with wounded soldiers and a broken heart as America enters WWII in a novel of “nonstop action, romance, and suspense” (Publishers Weekly). A USA Today Bestseller November, 1941. Though she’s never seen the ocean before, Eva Cassidy has her reasons for making the crossing to Hawaii aboard the SS Lurline. Newly enlisted as an Army Corps nurse, she is stunned by the splendor of the Pacific, and even more so by Lt. Clark Spencer, a man who clearly has secrets of his own. Though she is drawn to him, Eva’s troubled past prevents her from following her heart. Though Clark warns Eva that America will be drawn into the war, nothing could prepare them for the surprise attack that will change the world they know. In the wake of the Pearl Harbor bombing, Eva and her fellow nurses take on the immense duty of keeping the American wounded alive. But the danger that finds Eva threatens everything she holds dear. Amid the chaos and heartbreak, she must decide whom to trust and how far she will go to protect those she loves.

Author : Mary Ellen Condon-Rall,Albert E. Cowdrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Medicine, Military
ISBN : 0160492653

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The Medical Department by Mary Ellen Condon-Rall,Albert E. Cowdrey Pdf

Author : Norman Friedman,Naval History and Heritage Command,U. S. Department Of The Navy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1782669078

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Winning a Future War by Norman Friedman,Naval History and Heritage Command,U. S. Department Of The Navy Pdf

"To win in the Pacific during World War II, the U.S. Navy had to transform itself technically, tactically, and strategically. It had to create a fleet capable of the unprecedented feat of fighting and winning far from home, without existing bases, in the face of an enemy with numerous bases fighting in his own waters. Much of the credit for the transformation should go to the war gaming conducted at the U.S. Naval War College. Conversely, as we face further demands for transformation, the inter-war experience at the War College offers valuable guidance as to what works, and why, and how."

Author : Geoffrey C. Ward,Ken Burns
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307262837

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The War by Geoffrey C. Ward,Ken Burns Pdf

The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced—and helped to win—the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost. Focusing on the citizens of four towns— Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama;—The War follows more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Woven largely from their memories, the compelling, unflinching narrative unfolds month by bloody month, with the outcome always in doubt. All the iconic events are here, from Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the concentration camps—but we also move among prisoners of war and Japanese American internees, defense workers and schoolchildren, and families who struggled simply to stay together while their men were shipped off to Europe, the Pacific, and North Africa. Enriched by maps and hundreds of photographs, including many never published before, this is an intimate, profoundly affecting chronicle of the war that shaped our world.

Author : James Y. Suen,Eugene N. Myers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015060572198

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Cancer of the Head and Neck by James Y. Suen,Eugene N. Myers Pdf

Author : Leonore Davidoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780199546480

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Thicker Than Water by Leonore Davidoff Pdf

A pioneering new study of nineteenth-century kinship and family relations, focusing on the British middle class, and highlighting both the similarities and the differences in relations between brothers and sisters in the past and in the present.