Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine
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£45.99
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Product code: BO/770
ISBN-10: 184800351X
ISBN-13: 9781852333485
ISBN-10: 184800351X
ISBN-13: 9781852333485
Author(s): Adriaan Hopperus Buma, David Burris, Alan Hawley, James Ryan, Peter F. Mahoney
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 644
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Springer
Published: April 2009
- This 2nd updated edition is an entry-level text covering all aspects of deployment, not just medical or health-related, for use by health professionals in a resource-constrained environment brought about by local conflict or natural disasters
- The book covers preparation, organisation, logistics, treatment of major trauma and medical emergencies, and the problems of delivering medicine in hostile/remote environments
- It bridges the fields of medicine, nursing, international relations, history, politics and economics and also touches on nutrition, infection, trauma, psychiatry, and psychological medicine, and training
