title: British military and naval medicine, 1600-1830.
abstract: The introduction reviews the historiography of military and naval medicine for the period, provides an overview of the essays, and concludes that the volume highlights the value of challenging the inherited notion that military medicine was in all respects 'a good thing' for medicine and society. In addition, the essays in this volume tell us more about both how military and naval medicine were components of a wider social, economic, cultural and political framework, and how medicine was part of the process of militarisation.
authors.forename: Geoffrey L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Hudson
mesh_terms: D006663:Historiography; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006772:Hospitals, Military / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000266:history*; D009326:Naval Medicine / Q000266:history*; D012962:Sociology, Medical / Q000266:history; D006113:United Kingdom