Senior leaders in the U.S. Department of Defense, as well nuclear strategists and academics, have argued that advent weapons is associated with a dramatic decrease wartime fatalities. This assessment often supported by an evolving series figures show marked drop fatalities percentage world population after 1945 to levels below those prior centuries. The goal this article not ascertain whether a...

On October 24, 2000, the Rosie the Riveter World War II/Home Front National Historical Park was established in Richmond, CA to commemorate in a substantial way the wartime women workers in the shipyards. A review of the 1942-1945 published case reports from the medical records of women who worked in the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, found that the women who helped build ships for the war effort...

A retrospective non-randomized study, comparing primary repair with colostomy, was made on a series of 102 patients with penetrating intraperitoneal colon injuries, in a war surgery programme in Cambodia. The overall case fatality rate (CFR) was 25.5%, whereas in the primary repair group CFR was 20%, compared to 30.8% in the colostomy group. The difference was not statistically significant (P =...

The Responsibilities of Medicine in Wartime: DR. Societies and Meetings: FRED W. RANKIN ...... ........................ 611 The Kansas Academy of Science: JOHN C. FRAZIER 628 Infrared Radiation: DR. N. C. BEESE .............................. 614 Reports: Obituary: Field Museum of Natural History ........................... 629 Joseph Charles Arthur: DEAN FRANK D. KERN. Special Articles: Recent ...

Objective: The treatment of wartime injuries has led to advances in the diagnosis and treatment of vascular trauma. Recent experience has stimulated a reappraisal of the management of such injuries, specifically assessing the effect of explosive devices on injury patterns and treatment strategies. The objective of this report is to provide a single-institution analysis of injury patterns and ma...

During World War II the original Associate Committee on Medical Research and three additional committees (each associated with a branch of the military) of the National Research Council organized wartime medical research. The war provided an opportunity for the NRC to demonstrate the utility of medical research and the ability of Canadians to make significant contributions to the allied researc...

This large volume of some 800 pages is a symposium from the pens of twenty-eight contributors. This is the third edition and includes much information gained from the study of head injuries in wartime. Several chapters are devoted to psychotic states and neuroses following head injuries, and an interesting chapter deals with malingering in relation to injuries of the brain, containing much info...

Interest in the development of programs to supply blood and its derivatives for civilian use is rapidly becoming widespread among health departments, medical societies, and hospitals. The wartime program of the American National Red Cross, sponsored by the Army and the Navy, made blood and its derivatives readily available to the armed forces, and their use has overwhelmingly demonstrated the g...

Rape is a weapon of war. Establishing this now common claim has been an achievement of feminist scholarship and activism and reveals wartime sexual violence as a social act marked by gendered power. But the consensus that rape is a weapon of war obscures important, and frequently unacknowledged, differences in ways of understanding and explaining it. This article opens these differences to anal...