1938 TRUETA I RASPALL, Josep (1897 – 1977)
El tratamiento de la fractura de guerra.
During the Spanish Civil War (1935-38) Trueta adopted as standard treatment for gunshot wounds and compound fractures the closed plaster method originated by the American surgeon H. Winnett Orr. Trueta called this the…
GMN 4435.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6303
1939 ARMSTRONG, Harry George (1899 – 1983)
Principles and practice of aviation medicine.
Used by all American flight surgeons during World War II.
GMN 2137.10 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2698
1939 STRUGHOLD, Hubertus (1898 – 1986); RUFF, Siegfried (1907 – 1989)
Grundriss der Luftfahrtmedizin.
Compendium of aerospace medicine during the Nazi regime. Ruff was director of the Aviation Medicine Department at the German Experimental Institute for Aviation. Though he was later indicted for war crimes, Ruff was n…
GMN 7174 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9341
1940 JOLLY, Douglas Waddell (1904 – 1983)
Field surgery in total war.
This book " became required reading in the US Army Medical Service during the Second World War. According to one US authority, C.E. Welch, Jolly’s methods ‘undoubtedly contributed more to the saving of lives of patien…
GMN 13090 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15342
1941 MAJOR, Ralph Hermon (1884 – 1970)
War and disease.
GMN 1684 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2388
1944 SIMMONS, James Stevens (1890 – 1954); WHAYNE, Tom French (1905 – ); ANDERSON, Gaylord West (1901 – 1979); HORACK, Harold Maclachlan (1912 – 1977)
Global Epidemiology: A geography of disease and sanitation. Vol. 1: India and the Far East/The Pacific Area; Vol. 2: Africa and the Adjacent Islands; Vol. 3: The Near and Middle East. Edited by James Stevens Simmons, Tom F. Whayne, Gaylord West Anderson, Harold Maclachlan Horack... and United States. Surgeon-General's Office. Preventive Medicine Service.
GMN 9032 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11211
1947 UNITED STATES STRATEGIC BOMBING SURVEY, MEDICAL DIVISION
The effects of atomic bombs on health and medical services in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Medical Division.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 13113 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15366
1949 ALLEN, Max Scott
Medicine under canvas: A war journal of the 77th Evacuation Hospital. Edited by Max Scott Allen. [Copyright by the University of Kansas School of Medicine.]
"Organized in Kansas with a capacity of 750 beds, this unit was made up of 47 doctors, 52 nurses, a hospital dietitian, and 318 enlisted men. The unit shipped out to England in May, 1942 on the H.M.T. Orcades. They be…
GMN 12019 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14227
1950 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE; STRUGHOLD, Hubertus (1898 – 1986)
German aviation medicine in World War II. Prepared under the auspices of The Surgeon General, U. S. Air Force. 2 vols.
Comprehensive analysis of German accomplishments in aviation and aerospace medicine during World War II, written by 56 mostly specialist German physicians and scientists from the Nazi regime who were brought to the Un…
GMN 7173 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9340
1952 –1962
History of the Second World War. Medical series. 13 vols.
GREAT BRITAIN
GMN 2180 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1236
1952 –1968
The Medical Department of the United States Army in World War II. 30 vols. in 33.
UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL SERVICE
Since 1968 this series of unnumbered volumes or multi-volume sets devoted to particular subjects has continued under the name of U.S. Army Medical Department
GMN 2180.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1261
1954 –1956 COULTER, Jack Leonard Sagar (1907 – 1969)
The Royal Naval Medical Service. Vol. 1. Administration. Vol. 2. Operations. History of the Second World War. United Kingdom medical series.
GMN 9199 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11380
1955 –1969 HOFF, Ebbe Curtis (1906 – 1985); COATES, John Boyd Jr. (1911 – 1996)
Medical Department, United States Army. Preventive medicine in World War II. Editor in chief John Boyd Coates, Jr. Editor for Preventive medicine Ebbe Curtis Hoff. 9 vols.
Digital facsimile of vols. 2-9 from the Hathi Trust at this link. (When I created this entry in March 2017 it was unclear whether vol. 1 was ever published.)
GMN 9221 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11403
1955 JEFFCOTT, George F. ( – 2000)
Medical Department, United States Army. United States Army Dental Service in World War II.
Digital text from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.
GMN 9222 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11404
1955 LINK, Mae Mills (1915 – 1996); COLEMAN, Hubert Anderson (1903 – )
Medical support of the Army Air Forces in World War II.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10249 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12440
1956 SMITH, Clarence McKittrick (1913 – 2002)
The Medical Department: Hospitalization and evacuation, zone of interior. The U. S. Army in World War II: The technical services.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8020 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10196
1958 DEBAKEY, Michael Ellis (1908 – 2008); WHAYNE, Tom French (1905 – )
Cold injury, ground type.
Summary of what was learned about frostbite and trenchfoot encountered by military personel in World War II. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 12561 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14800
1961 MILLER, Everett B.
Medical Department of the United States Army in World War II. United States Army Veterinary Service in World War II.
"The Army Veterinary Service has three major missions: (1) Inspection of food used by the military including its processing and the sanitary inspections of the establishments producing it; (2) provision of a comprehen…
GMN 9223 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11405
1986 LIFTON, Robert Jay (1926 – )
The Nazi doctors: Medical killing and the psychology of genocide.
"The first in-depth study of how medical professionals rationalized their participation in the Holocaust, from the early stages of the T-4 Euthanasia Program to the extermination camps" (Wikipedia).
GMN 8695 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10872
1987 WILTSE, Charles M. (1907 – 1990)
The Medical Department: Medical service in the Mediterranean and minor theatres. The U.S. Army in World War II: The technical services.
GMN 8021 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10197
1992 COWDREY, Albert E.; COSMAS, Graham A.
The Medical Department: medical service in the European theater of operations. The U. S. Army in World War II: The technical services.
GMN 8019 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10195
1992 ROLAND, Charles Gordon (1933 – 2009)
Courage under siege: Starvation, disease, and death in the Warsaw Ghetto.
GMN 11054 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13250
1992 CAPLAN, Arthur L. (1950 – )
When medicine went mad: Bioethics and the holocaust. Edited by Arthur L. Caplan.
GMN 14149 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16464
1994 COWDREY, Albert E.
Fighting for life: American military medicine in World War II.
GMN 7886 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10058
1997 HERMAN, Jan K.
Battle station sick bay: Navy medicine in World War II.
GMN 10247 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12437
1998 COWDREY, Albert E.; CONDON-RALL, Mary Ellen (1938 – )
The Medical Department: Medical service in the war against Japan. United States Army in World War II: The technical services.
GMN 8018 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10194
2001 ROLAND, Charles Gordon (1933 – 2009)
Long night's journey into day: Prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945.
GMN 7840 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10012
2002 NICOSIA, Francis R. (1944 – ); HUENER, Jonathan D.
Medicine and medical ethics in Nazi Germany. Origins, practices, legacies. Edited by Francis R. Nicosia and Jonathan Huener.
GMN 13503 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15778
2004 HARRISON, Mark
Medicine and victory: British military medicine in World War II.
GMN 8249 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10425
2007 JONES, David R.; GROSS, Leroy P.; MARCHBANKS-ROBINSON, Roslyn
United States Army aeromedical support to African American fliers, 1941-1949: The Tuskegee flight surgeons.
Digital facsimile from airforemedicine.af.mil at this link.
GMN 10250 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12441
2009 HYSON, John Miller Jr. (1927 – 2009); WHITEHORNE, Joseph W. A.; GREENWOOD, John T.
A history of dentistry in the U.S. Army to World War II.
The development of military dentistry in the United States, from beginnings in the early 17th century, through the professionalization of dentistry in the 19th century, dental care on both sides of the Civil War, the …
GMN 9225 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11407
2013 WORTHEN, Dennis B. (1943 – )
Pharmacy in World War II.
GMN 10372 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12564
2013 MEIKLE, Murray Clyde (1938 – )
Reconstructing faces: The art and wartime surgery of Gillies, Pickerill, McIndoe and Mowlem.
GMN 11366 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13565
2015 RIAUD, Xavier
Chirurgie dentaire et nazisme.
GMN 11068 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13264
2018 MURRAY, John F.; LODDENKEMPER, Robert (1939 – )
Tuberculosis and War: Lessons learned from World War II. Edited by John F. Murray and Robert Loddenkemper.
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the status of TB before, during and after WWII in the 25 belligerent countries that were chiefly involved. It also summarizes the history of TB up to the present day. "A …
GMN 10594 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12787
