Battle-scarred : mortality, medical care and military welfare in the British civil wars /: mortality, medical care and military welfare in the British civil wars. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by David Appleby, Andrew Hopper.
• Editors: Appleby, David; Hopper, Andrew (Andrew James)
• Contents: Introduction / David J. Appleby and Andrew Hopper -- Part I: Mortality -- 1. Battlefields, burials and the English Civil Wars / Ian Atherton -- 2. Controlling disease in a civil-war garrison town: military discipline or civic duty? The surviving evidence for Newark upon Trent, 1642-46 / Stuart B. Jennings -- Part II: Medical care -- 3. A new kind of surgery for a new kind of war: gunshot wounds and their treatment in the British Civil Wars / Stephen M. Rutherford -- 4. 'Stout Skippon hath a wound': the medical treatment of Parliament's infantry commander following the battle of Naseby / Ismini Pells -- 5. 'Dead hogges, dogges, cats and well flayed carryon horses': royalist hospital provision during the First Civil War -- Eric Gruber von Arni -- 6. Gerard's Herball and the treatment of war-wounds and contagion during the English Civil War / Richard Jones -- Part III: The hidden human costs 7 The third army: wandering soldiers and the negotiation of parliamentary authority, 1642-51 / David J. Appleby -- 8. 'The deep staines these Wars will leave behind': psychological wounds and curative methods in the English Civil Wars / Erin Peters -- 9. The administration of military welfare in Kent, 1642-79 -- Hannah Worthen -- 10. 'To condole with me on the Commonwealth's loss': the widows and orphans of Parliament's military commanders / Andrew Hopper -- 11. 'So necessarie and charitable a worke': welfare, identity and Scottish prisoners of war in England, 1650-55 / Chris R. Langley -- Conclusion / David J. Appleby and Andrew Hopper -- Select bibliography -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, maps
• Subjects: 942.0627; Medical personnel -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Medicine, Military -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Medical care -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Mortality -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Battle casualties; Medical care; Medical personnel; Medicine, Military; Mortality; Social conditions; Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Medical care; Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 17th century; Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Casualties; Great Britain; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526124821; 1526124823; 9781526124814; 1526124815
• Related ISBNs: 9781526124807
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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