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Battle-scarred : mortality,...
'Battle-Scarred' examines mortality, medical care and military welfare during the British civil wars. Its focus on the victims of war and their means of survival provides a series of case studies to demonstrate how these visceral conflicts drove developments in medical care and military welfare for servicemen and their families
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analitica Rebiun36524459 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun36524459 m o d 001 0 cr#mu#nnnuuuuu 190111t20182018xxkab|| ob||| 001 0 eng|d 1-5261-4485-9 1-5261-2481-5 1-5261-3867-0 10.7765/9781526124814 doi UkMaJRU rda eng xxk GB-BST Battle-scarred mortality, medical care and military welfare in the British civil wars edited by David Appleby, Andrew Hopper 1st ed Manchester, UK Manchester University Press 2018 Manchester, UK Manchester, UK Manchester University Press 2018 1 online resource (264 pages) maps; digital, PDF file(s) 1 online resource (264 pages) Manchester History of Medicine Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain Previously issued in print: 2018 Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction / David J. Appleby and Andrew Hopper --Part I: Mortality --1. Battlefields, burials and the English Civil Wars / Ian Atherton --2. Controlling disease in a civil-war garrison town: military discipline or civic duty? The surviving evidence for Newark upon Trent, 1642-46 / Stuart B. Jennings --Part II: Medical care --3. A new kind of surgery for a new kind of war: gunshot wounds and their treatment in the British Civil Wars / Stephen M. Rutherford --4. 'Stout Skippon hath a wound': the medical treatment of Parliament's infantry commander following the battle of Naseby / Ismini Pells --5. 'Dead hogges, dogges, cats and well flayed carryon horses': royalist hospital provision during the First Civil War --Eric Gruber von Arni --6. Gerard's Herball and the treatment of war-wounds and contagion during the English Civil War / Richard Jones --Part III: The hidden human costs 7 The third army: wandering soldiers and the negotiation of parliamentary authority, 1642-51 / David J. Appleby --8. 'The deep staines these Wars will leave behind': psychological wounds and curative methods in the English Civil Wars / Erin Peters --9. The administration of military welfare in Kent, 1642-79 --Hannah Worthen --10. 'To condole with me on the Commonwealth's loss': the widows and orphans of Parliament's military commanders / Andrew Hopper --11. 'So necessarie and charitable a worke': welfare, identity and Scottish prisoners of war in England, 1650-55 / Chris R. Langley --Conclusion / David J. Appleby and Andrew Hopper --Select bibliography --Index 'Battle-Scarred' examines mortality, medical care and military welfare during the British civil wars. Its focus on the victims of war and their means of survival provides a series of case studies to demonstrate how these visceral conflicts drove developments in medical care and military welfare for servicemen and their families Lecturers, students and enthusiasts of the British Civil Wars In English Appleby, David editor Hopper, Andrew Andrew James) editor 1-5261-2482-3 1-5261-2480-7 Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain Manchester scholarship online