World War I
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Sunday, November 08, 2009

Care and meaning in war zone nursing.

29 Nov 2009 During the past century, nurses have served as caregivers for United States military personnel in every major theater of war. Military nurses in the war zone deliver patient care while working in austere conditions, and are under constant threat of ... Read more...

Blood transfusion in World War I: the roles of Lawrence Bruce Robertson and Oswald Hope Robertson in the "most important medical advance of the war".

29 Jun 2009 The demonstration and acceptance of the life-saving potential of blood transfusion in the resuscitation of combat casualties came in two parts. First, Canadian surgeon Major Lawrence Bruce Robertson showed that direct transfusion of uncrossmatched ... Read more...

Separating the men from the boys: masculinity and maturity in understandings of shell shock in Britain.

30 Dec 2008 This article examines gendered discourses of shell shock in Britain during the First World War. Located within the context of the ideas about shell shock as a form of male hysteria put forward by Elaine Showalter, it examines the ways in which the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'World War I'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Care and meaning in war zone nursing. 29 Nov 2009
• A bizarre case of drowning as a result of pandemic influenza (1918 pandemic). 9 Sep 2009
• Understanding influenza backward. 10 Aug 2009
• The yellow cow. 30 Jul 2009
• Blood transfusion in World War I: the roles of Lawrence Bruce Robertson and Oswald Hope Robertson in the "most important medical advance of the war". 29 Jun 2009
• [Trachoma in Nyíregyháza (Hungary) between the two World Wars] 15 May 2009
• [The interwar years] 29 Apr 2009
• Connell gas-oxygen apparatus, brass model war SP. 29 Apr 2009
• Influenza, marksmanship and the last gasps of the Great War. 18 Apr 2009
• [A Swedish surgeon's report from the trenches on the Western front] 30 Mar 2009
• Separating the men from the boys: masculinity and maturity in understandings of shell shock in Britain. 30 Dec 2008
• La Grippe and World War I: conflict participation and pandemic confrontation. 30 Dec 2008
• Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson building aircraft: acetylene welders (1917): lithograph on paper image, 40.3 x 29.8 cm. Tate Collection, presented by the Ministry of Information 1918. 29 Nov 2008
• [Spanish influenza 1918/19 in Nürnberg: H1N1 and the consequences] 29 Nov 2008
• An historical perspective of early Italian air medical transport. 30 Oct 2008
• The end of the great war. 30 Oct 2008
• The mothers (VI from seven woodcuts to war). 30 Oct 2008
• Early prosthesis to go on show. 9 Oct 2008
• Lessons learned from the military. 29 Sep 2008
• Sir Victor Horsley's contributions to the study and treatment of gunshot wounds of the head. 29 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'World War I'

Definition: Global conflict primarily fought on European continent, that occurred between 1914 and 1918.

Descriptor UI: D047828

Alternative terms: World War I; First World War; First World Wars; War, First World; Wars, First World; World War, First; World Wars, First; 1st World War; 1st World Wars; War, 1st World; Wars, 1st World; World War, 1st; World Wars, 1st; World War, 1914-1918; 1914-1918 World War; Wars, 1914-1918 World; World War, 1914 1918; World Wars, 1914-1918; Great War; Great Wars; War, Great; Wars, Great;

Tree Number: K01.400.504.968.900;

History Note: 2005