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Military Medicine to Win Hearts and Minds - Aid to Civilians in the Vietnam War (Hardcover)
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Military Medicine to Win Hearts and Minds - Aid to Civilians in the Vietnam War (Hardcover)
Series: Modern Southeast Asia Series
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'Wilensky does a fine job of examining medical aid programs in
Vietnam and offers astute 'take aways'...This is a fine piece of
scholarshipone that should inspire other historians to explore
similar areas of the American experience in Vietnam' - ""Journal of
Military History"". 'This well-researched volume contains much
detail on the clinical and cultural problems of applying modern
medicine in an underdeveloped country' - ""Journal of American
History"". 'This volume covers the war from a truly different
angle. Recommended' - ""Choice"". 'Rarely does one read a history
book that has immediate lessons that can be applied. [This] is such
a book...Highly recommended for those interested in the history of
the Vietnam War' - ""On Point"". 'A valuable retrospective of the
U.S. humanitarian military medical experience in Vietnam from the
first engagement in 1954 to the departure of U.S. forces in 1973' -
James Peake, ""Health Affairs"". American soldiers have provided
medical aid to civilians in many wars, and no less in the Vietnam
War, where there were more than forty million contacts between U.S.
medical personnel and Vietnamese civilians. Robert J. Wilensky,
using data derived from extensive archival research as well as his
personal experience in Vietnam, shows how medical aid to Vietnamese
civilians, at first based simply on good will, became policy. The
original Medical Civic Action Program (MEDCAP), by which unit
medical teams treated civilians in their area, soon expanded to
other acronymically designated programs: the Military Provincial
Hospital (later Health) Assistance Program (MILPHAP), the Civilian
War Casualty Program (CWCP), and the Provincial Health Assistance
Program (PHAP). Although MEDCAP treated many, American doctors were
uniformly unhappy about the superficial care they were able to
give. Labs, x-ray machines, and surgery were not available at the
unit level; follow-up was sketchy or nonexistent. Other programs
became so politicized that they were almost ineffective.
Coordination with the government of South Vietnam was poor,
creating areas that were underserved. Most important, there is no
evidence that the good will built by U.S. doctors transferred to
South Vietnamese forces. American programs may have emphasized the
inability of the Republic of Vietnam to provide basic health care
to its own people and may have demonstrated to Vietnamese civilians
that foreign soldiers cared more for them than their own troops
did. If that is the case, the programs actually did more harm than
good in the attempt to win hearts and minds. Robert J. Wilensky, a
battalion medical officer in Vietnam in 1967-68, is a surgeon who
also holds a Ph.D. in history. He is on the staff of the Historical
Section of the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army, teaches
at George Mason University and American University, and has an
appointment at the Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences.
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