Public Health and the US Military is a cultural history of the
US Army Medical Department focusing on its accomplishments and
organization coincident with the creation of modern public health
in the Progressive Era. A period of tremendous social change, this
time bore witness to the creation of an ideology of public health
that influences public policy even today. The US Army Medical
Department exerted tremendous influence on the methods adopted by
the nation's leading civilian public health figures and agencies at
the turn of the twentieth century.
Public Health and the US Military also examines the challenges
faced by military physicians struggling to win recognition and
legitimacy as expert peers by other Army officers and within the
civilian sphere. Following the experience of typhoid fever
outbreaks in the volunteer camps during the Spanish-American War,
and the success of uniformed researchers and sanitarians in
confronting yellow fever and hookworm disease in Cuba and Puerto
Rico, the Medical Department's influence and reputation grew in the
decades before the First World War. Under the direction of
sanitary-minded medical officers, the Army Medical Department
instituted critical public health reforms at home and abroad, and
developed a model of sanitary tactics for wartime mobilization that
would face its most critical test in 1917.
The first large conceptual overview of the role of the US Army
Medical Department in American society during the nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries, this book details the culture and quest
for legitimacy of an institution dedicated to promoting public
health and scientific medicine.
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