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Epidemics and the American Military - Jack E. McCallum

Epidemics and the American Military

Five Times Disease Changed the Course of War
Buch | Hardcover
288 Seiten
2023
Naval Institute Press (Verlag)
978-1-68247-730-4 (ISBN)
CHF 64,50 inkl. MwSt
In Epidemics and the American Military, Dr. Jack McCallum examines the major role the military has played propagating and controlling disease throughout America’s history.
In Epidemics and the American Military, Dr. Jack McCallum examines the major role the military has played propagating and controlling disease throughout this nation’s history. The U.S. armed forces recruit young people from isolated rural areas and densely populated cities, many of whom have been exposed to a smorgasbord of germs. After training and living in close contact with each other for months, soldiers are shipped across countries and continents and meet civilians and other armies. McCallum argues that if one set out to design a perfect world for an aggressive pathogen, it would be hard to do better than an army at war.

There are four ways to combat epidemic infectious diseases: quarantine, altering the ecology in which infections spread, medical treatment of infection, and immunization. Each has played a specific but often overlooked role in American wars. A case can be made that General George Washington saved the American Revolution when he mandated inoculation of the Continental Army with smallpox. The Union Army might very well have taken Richmond in 1862 had it not been for an epidemic of typhoid fever during the Peninsular Campaign. Yellow fever was a proximate cause of the American invasion of Cuba in 1898, and its control enabled a continued U.S. presence on the island and in the rest of the Caribbean. Had it not been for influenza, German Gen. Erich Ludendorff might well have succeeded in his offensive in the closing years of World War I. Before senior Army and Naval officers recognized the importance of anti-malarial prophylaxis and forced its acceptance by hesitant troops, the World War II Solomon and New Guinea campaigns were in danger of collapsing.

Dr. Jack E. McCallum holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Georgia Institute of Technology, a master's in history from Texas Christian University, a Doctorate in Medicine from Emory University, and a Doctorate in History from Texas Christian University. He has board certification in both adult and pediatric neurosurgery and has held teaching appointments in medicine and history at several universities and has been founder and chief executive officer of four successful companies. He has published two books and numerous articles dealing with both medicine and history and taught history at the graduate and undergraduate level for seventeen years.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 4 maps, 8 b&w photos
Verlagsort Annopolis
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 272 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Infektiologie / Immunologie
ISBN-10 1-68247-730-4 / 1682477304
ISBN-13 978-1-68247-730-4 / 9781682477304
Zustand Neuware
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