Expertise, Authority and Control charts the development of Australian military medicine in the First World War in the first major study of the Australian Army Medical Corps in over seventy years. It examines the provision of medical care to Australian soldiers during the Dardanelles campaign and explores the imperial and medical-military hierarchies that were blended and challenged during the campaign. By the end of 1918, the AAMC was a radically different organisation. Using army orders, unit war diaries and memoranda written to disseminate information within the Australian Imperial Forces (AIF) and between British and Australian soldiers, it maps the provision of medical care through casualty clearance and evacuation, rehabilitation, and the prevention and treatment of venereal disease. In doing so, she reassesses Australian military medicine and maps the transition to an infrastructure for the AIF in the field, especially in response to conflicts with traditional imperial, military and medical hierarchies.
By:
Alexia Moncrieff
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 158mm,
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 530g
ISBN: 9781108478151
ISBN 10: 1108478158
Series: Australian Army History Series
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 11 February 2020
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction. More than just a man and his donkey; 1. Gallipoli: a case of criminal negligence; 2. Medicine in the lines: stationary warfare on the Western Front, 1916–1917; 3. The Western Front in 1918: the AAMC in mobile warfare; 4. A pleasant dose of medicine? The purpose, place and practice of auxiliary hospitals; 5. The most difficult problem: preventing and treating venereal disease; Conclusion. Developing an Australian medical service.
Dr Alexia Moncrieff is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of History at the University of Leeds.
Reviews for Expertise, Authority and Control: The Australian Army Medical Corps in the First World War
'This is a welcome and easily digestible volume and an essential tool (alongside Butler) to understand our medical war.' Mike O'Brien, President of the Royal United Services Institute of Victoria 'Critical historiographical evaluations are deftly woven through the chapters, with several theses, genres and themes investigated for how they might support or refute events under discussion … This is an important book which offers a far more nuanced account of Australia's medical campaign in the First World War than that of Simpson and his donkey.' Jan McLeod, Reconnaissance
