The history of warfare and the history of medicine are closely intertwined. War has been an accelerator of advances in medical treatment and surgery. As modern weaponry became more destructive, medicine developed techniques and procedures to deal with the volume and nature of battlefield casualties.

Machine-generated contents note: Preface -- Steve Gower -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Elizabeth Stewart -- First World War -- 1 -- Shell Shock and the lives of the Lost Generation -- Jay Winter -- 2 -- 'Chewing cordite': self-inflicted wounds among soldiers of the Great War -- Ashley Ekins -- 3 -- Scarred by war: medical responses to facially disfigured soldiers of the Great War -- Kerry Neale -- 4 -- 'The home is always here for him': disabled soldiers and family caregiving in Australia after the First World War -- Marina Larsson -- Second World War -- 5 -- Rabbit war wounds -- Paul Weindling -- 6 -- Medical responses to the liberation of Nazi camps, April-May 1945 -- Debbie Lackerstein -- Korea -- 7 -- An Australian army doctor: Bryan Gandevia -- Simon Gandevia -- Vietnam -- 8 -- Diggers and a 'dose of the clap': the problem of sexually transmitted infections among Australian soldiers in Vietnam -- David Bradford -- 9 -- Surgery under fire: civilian surgical teams in Vietnam -- Elizabeth Stewart -- 10 -- The official history's Agent Orange account: the veteran's perspective -- Graham Walker -- 11 -- Australia's Agent Orange story: a historian's perspective -- Peter Edwards -- Personal Stories -- 12 -- A short walk in a minefield -- Tony White -- 13 -- Military nursing in Afghanistan, 2008 -- Sharon Cooper -- 14 -- Living with war wounds -- Graham Edwards -- Notes -- Index.