Lifesavers and body snatchers : medical care and the struggle for survival in the Great War / Tim Cook.

By:

Cook, Tim, 1971-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: [Toronto] : Allen Lane, 2022Description: 543 pages : illustrations, mapContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0735242313 (hardcover)
9780735242319 (hardcover)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

940.4/7571 23

Summary: A look at how medical care provided by the Canadian medical services during World War I was sophisticated and constantly evolving, with many lives saved, and how lessons learned during the war were brought back to Canada to improve the country's health care. However, the harvesting of human body parts in medical units behind the lines was also part of this care, and almost 800 individual body parts were removed from dead soldiers and sent to the Royal College of Surgeons in London, England to be treated and exhibited.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A look at how medical care provided by the Canadian medical services during World War I was sophisticated and constantly evolving, with many lives saved, and how lessons learned during the war were brought back to Canada to improve the country's health care. However, the harvesting of human body parts in medical units behind the lines was also part of this care, and almost 800 individual body parts were removed from dead soldiers and sent to the Royal College of Surgeons in London, England to be treated and exhibited.

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