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In his memoir Military Medicine and Cold War, author Jerald Lee Watts recounts his time in the United States Air Force in the early 1960's--a period of high tensions that included the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet intimidation of West Berlin, and the American involvement in the former Belgian Congo.
Military health service support is an important element of combat service support. The art of health service support, often referred to as military medicine, has a history almost as long as organized warfare. The roles and functions associated with the successful practice of health service support solidified in the early part of the twentieth century. From that base, extensive refinement has occurred. United States' military medical effectiveness during World War II set the standard against which military health service support has been compared for the past fifty years. Inherent to its success was a set of skills, knowledge, and attitudes to produce a clear focus that set priorities to define ways, means, and ends. During the decades of the Cold War, the focused health service support capability which had been fine tuned during World War II became lost in bureaucratic and political fog. The military medical departments gradually shifted focus from the roles, missions, and functions at which they had learned to be successful. Those skills were replaced by a new military medicine culture that adopted new roles in extensive dependent and retiree clinical health care. This redefined mission evolved to be the dominant focus of today's military medical system. The result has been a loss of the culture which enabled and created greatness in United States military medicine fifty years ago.
Military health service support is an important element of combat service support. The art of health service support, often referred to as military medicine, has a history almost as long as organized warfare. The roles and functions associated with the successful practice of health service support solidified in the early part of the twentieth century. From that base, extensive refinement has occurred. United States' military medical effectiveness during World War II set the standard against which military health service support has been compared for the past fifty years. Inherent to its success was a set of skills, knowledge, and attitudes to produce a clear focus that set priorities to define ways, means, and ends. During the decades of the Cold War, the focused health service support capability which had been fine tuned during World War II became lost in bureaucratic and political fog. The military medical departments gradually shifted focus from the roles, missions, and functions at which they had learned to be successful. Those skills were replaced by a new military medicine culture that adopted new roles in extensive dependent and retiree clinical health care. This redefined mission evolved to be the dominant focus of today's military medical system. The result has been a loss of the culture which enabled and created greatness in United States military medicine fifty years ago.
During the Cold War, an alliance between American scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and the US military pushed the medical establishment into ethically fraught territory. Doctors and scientists at prestigious institutions were pressured to produce medical advances to compete with the perceived threats coming from the Soviet Union. In Against Their Will, authors Allen Hornblum, Judith Newman, and Gregory Dober reveal the little-known history of unethical and dangerous medical experimentation on children in the United States. Through rare interviews and the personal correspondence of renowned medical investigators, they document how children—both normal and those termed "feebleminded"—from infants to teenagers, became human research subjects in terrifying experiments. They were drafted as "volunteers" to test vaccines, doused with ringworm, subjected to electric shock, and given lobotomies. They were also fed radioactive isotopes and exposed to chemical warfare agents. This groundbreaking book shows how institutional superintendents influenced by eugenics often turned these children over to scientific researchers without a second thought. Based on years of archival work and numerous interviews with both scientific researchers and former test subjects, this is a fascinating and disturbing look at the dark underbelly of American medical history.
Glimpsing Modernity is a collection of papers presented at the US Army Medical Museum-sponsored conference on medical aspects of the First World War held in San Antonio, Texas, in February 2012. It captures the metamorphosis of military medicine during the war in a series of inter-related vignettes. Some of these stories provide new and insightful interpretations of known military medical themes, while others depart from these to examine less well-known, but truly important medical topics.
"The History of the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps" traces the evolution of the corps from its origins during the American Revolution, through its stages of growth and transformation into a separate professional element of the military medical establishment in 1947 and its steady progress during the postwar and Cold War years, to its status in 1994. The lessons of the Medical Service Corps' history are rooted in America's wartime experiences, and they are important ones for future leaders to learn for ensuring continued progress for MSC officers who represent the growth in medical science and military medical operations and administration.
Specialty Volume of Textbooks of Military Medicine. TMM. Edited by Shawn Christian Nessen, Dave Edmond Lounsbury, and Stephen P. Hetz. Foreword by Bob Woodruff. Prepared especially for medical personnel. Provides the fundamental principles and priorities critical in managing the trauma of modern warfare. Contains concise supplemental material for military surgeons deploying or preparing to deploy to a combat theater.