Table of Contents

Introduction
1: A Medical Service for a Modern Army?
2: Medicine in Retreat 1940-2
3: The Western Desert 1940-3
4: North Africa, Sicily, and Italy
5: Burma and North-East India
6: Medicine Victorious: North-West Europe 1944-5
Conclusion
Bibliography

Reviews

Harrison's writing about the fighting is gripping and the importance of medical developments is deftly interwoven with the wider campaigns. The book succeeds in throwing light, not just on the history of medicine during the Second World War, but also on the dual focus of health and medicine - the rise of high tech medicine and the transformation of social medicine - during the immediate post war years. Virginia Berridge, Twentieth Century British History a fascinating study,.. essential reading for historians of the Second World War Ian F. W. Beckett, Social History of Medicine an important and archivally well-grounded study. Jeremy Black, Social Affairs Unit