Charles F.  Wooley. The Irritable Heart of Soldiers and the Origins of Anglo‐American Cardiology: The U.S. Civil War (1861) to World War I (1918). (History of Medicine in Context.) xvi + 321 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2002. $99.95 (cloth).

Isis ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 522-522
Author(s):  
Lawrence H. Cohn
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
World War I ◽  
History Of Medicine ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The U.S

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas I. Faith
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Chemical Warfare ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Military ◽  
The U.S

This book documents the institutional history of the Chemical Warfare Service (CWS), the U.S. Army organization responsible for chemical warfare, from its origins in 1917 through Amos A. Fries's departure as CWS chief in 1929. It examines the U.S. chemical warfare program as it developed before the nation began sending soldiers to fight in France during World War I; the American Expeditionary Force's experiences with poison gas on the Western Front; the CWS's struggle to continue its chemical weapons program in a hostile political environment after the war; and CWS efforts to improve its public image as well as its reputation in the military in the first half of the 1920s. The book concludes with an assessment of the CWS's successes and failures in the second half of the 1920s. Through the story of the CWS, the book shows how the autonomy of the military-industrial complex can be limited when policymakers are confronted with pervasive, hostile public opinion.

Cosmopolitanism, Ethnicity and American Identity: Randolph Bourne's “ Trans-National America ”

1991 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie J. Vaughan
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
World War I ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Immigration Policies ◽  
Red Scare ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The U.S

This paper examines the contestation over otherness – in the form of ethnicity and national identity – that arose in the U.S. during World War I, culminating in the Red Scare of the 1920s. In the narrative of “Americanization,” immigration policies were joined with a militant nationalism, aiming to eliminate “enemies within” and from without, through a process of deportation, the criminalization of dissent and military interventionism. The demonization of immigrant-otherness became a means of strengthening solidarity among Anglo-Saxons, at a time when their cohesiveness was being challenged internally. As such, the history of America's internal control over its immigrant self is the familiar one of the limits of liberalism.

scholarly journals Seventy years of the Section for the history of medicine of the Serbian medical society

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-160
Author(s):  
Zoran Vacić
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Medical Society ◽  
World War ◽  
Work Activity ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second Period

This paper covers the forming of the Serbian Medical Society sections in the period until 1950, as well as the amendments made to the Rules of the Serbian Medical Society in 1919 and 1928. Prior to World War I, the Section for Tuberculosis was formed (1907). In the interwar period, seven specialist sections and one class section (Section of District Doctors for Belgrade, Zemun and Pančevo, 1931) were formed. After World War II, led by the all-pervasive enthusiasm in society of that time and the need for renewing and rebuilding all life segments in socialist Yugoslavia, new sections and regional branches of the Serbian Medical Society were established. The Section for the History of Medicine and Pharmacy was founded as the 16th section of the Serbian Medical Society, in 1950, and, in 1980, its name was changed to - Section for the History of Medicine. The first meeting of the Section was held on March 29, 1950. Professor Vladimir Stanojević, PhD, Medical Corps General, was elected the first President of the Section. The first lecture, delivered by Professor Aleksandar Đ. Kostić (Jedan stogodišnji srpski leksikon), is also described briefly in this paper. During its 70 years of work, the Section has experienced periods of rise and fall in its activity; while there has been formal continuity in its work, activity has been irregular (the regularity of the meetings, the number of communications, etc.), which is why its history can be divided into four periods. The Section achieved its best results in the first (1950-1978) and in its fourth (2009-2020) period. The second period (1978-1993) was characterized by a decrease in activity, while the third (1993-2009) was a period of complete inactivity. The Section had a fruitful publishing activity during the first and the fourth period. It was voted the best section of the Serbian Medical society twice - in 2016 and 2017.

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