'The Medical War' describes the role of medicine in the British Army during the First World War. It argues that medicine played a vital part in the war, helping to sustain the morale of troops and their families, and reducing the wastage of manpower.

Building the medical machine : the Western front, 1914-June 1916 -- The machine in motion : the Western front, July 1916-November 1918 -- War, health, and citizenship : preventive medicine on the Western front -- Gallipoli : the failure of command -- "Wonder and pain" : Mesopotamia, November 1914-May 1916 -- War against nature : malaria in Salonika, East Africa, and the Middle East -- Military medicine in transition : Mesopotamia, June 1916-November 1918.