Combat Medicine: A Model for Civilian Mass Casualty Managment?

2002 ◽  
Vol 46 (16) ◽  
pp. 1501-1505
Author(s):  
John P. Holmquist ◽  
John S. Barnett
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Mass Casualty ◽  
Home Front ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
World War ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
Combat Medics ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Combat Medicine

Casualty management is vital in combat. Prior to World War I, the wounded soldier's outlook for survival was dismal. However, technological advances of the twentieth-century introduced combat medics, triage, and improved medicines to the front lines, as well as, paramedics, 9-1-1 response, and state and local emergency centers on the home front, reducing pain and saving lives. Emerging technology promises to bring further life-saving techniques to the future battlefield and civilian disasters. With the advent of digital networks and sophisticated information technology, the ability to assist the wounded and evacuate casualties from the combat zone and city emergency areas promises tremendous improvements in casualty management and subsequent patient survival. This paper provides a brief review of the evolution of battlefield medicine and extrapolates how combining applied human factors with emergent digital technology could enhance battlefield and disaster casualty management.

Canada through World War I

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian C. D. Moffat
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Home Front ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
Canadian Army ◽  
British Colony ◽  
The One ◽  
The Great War

The Great War was the world event that began the evolution of Canada from a self-governing British colony to a great independent country. However, one of Canada’s failings is its self-deprecation and modesty. Canada has produced a number of historic works documenting and analyzing Canada’s accomplishments and the individuals who made them happen. Although much was written by actual participants in the interwar years, the majority of the objective and analytical works have only slowly emerged after the Second World War when history became a respected academic discipline. This annotated bibliography gives a cross section of the Canadian Great War historiography with the majority of the work having been produced after 1980. The Canadian Army and the role of Canadians serving in the British Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service have good coverage in Canadian monographs. The one area of study that has a dearth of work is on the Royal Canadian Navy since it had a very small role in the Great War and did not come into its own until after 1939. Nonetheless, there are a number of works included that show the Navy’s fledgling accomplishments between 1914 and 1918, as well as the efforts of the British Admiralty to restrict the Royal Canadian Navy’s actions in defense of its own area of operations. This bibliography also contains works on prisoners of war, the psychological effects of trench warfare on Canadians serving at the front, the internment of enemy aliens in Canada, and effects of the war on the home front, including one French work analyzing French Quebec’s changing attitude to World War I over the length of the 20th century.

Mothers of France

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Duckett
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Home Front ◽  
World War ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Town

This chapter explores new interconnections between private and public life, the provincial home and the global stage, in Mothers of France, a patriotic film that was made to encourage Americans—particularly women—to participate in World War I. More specifically, it considers how Sarah Bernhardt in Mothers of France was used as a propaganda tool to sway American audiences to the Allied cause. Now engaging ideas about nation and nationhood in explicitly combative ways, the film's narrative begins in the bourgeois home but quickly moves into a provincial village and then into the trenches of the war. In the film Sarah Bernhardt appears at her most “cinematic” in contemporary terms, because film allowed her, literally, to move after the amputation of her leg. This chapter considers how World War I brings new meanings to the notion of “the home front” by following Bernhardt as a mother in the home, then see her as a patriot in the town, and finally as a nurse on the home front.

“Enemy Aliens” and “Silk Stocking Girls”: The Class Politics of Internment in the Drive for Urban Order during World War I

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-458
Author(s):  
Adam Hodges
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Home Front ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
World War ◽  
Class Politics ◽  
Local Perceptions ◽  
Federal Authority ◽  
War Effort

This article focuses on the two national internment programs developed in the United States during World War I from the vantage point of Portland, Oregon, and argues that they unfolded locally. Both the male enemy aliens at risk of internment and the girls and women who experienced confinement due to sexual activity tended to be poor. Authorities deemed that they were, or were likely to become, radicals or prostitutes—but that they were not to be prosecuted as such. Officials could banish or track them more easily as threats to the war effort, rather than as threats to urban social stability and economic development. Scholars of the home front have ignored the evolution of local-federal partnerships to track or intern these two groups and have so far failed to establish how local perceptions of the dangerous poor shaped cooperation with wartime federal authority.

FEEDING THE CITY: THE BEIRUT MUNICIPALITY AND THE POLITICS OF FOOD DURING WORLD WAR I

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 737-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Schulze Tanielian
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Home Front ◽  
World War ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Internal Security ◽  
Provincial Capital ◽  
The City

AbstractWorld War I in the Ottoman Empire was a humanitarian disaster of unprecedented scale. By 1916 in the Greater Syrian provinces, men, women, and children were dyingen masseof a war-induced famine so devastating that popular memory still names this warḥarb al-majāʿa(the war of famine). Despite the civilian catastrophe, people's experiences on the Ottoman home front have been only marginally explored in the scholarship. Focusing on the city of Beirut, this article highlights the centrality of food provisioning in the competition for political legitimacy in the provincial capital. Through a detailed analysis of how the Beirut municipality was represented in the city's daily newspaperal-Ittihad al-ʿUthmani, I argue that for local reform-minded notables and intellectuals the war presented an opportunity to prove, both to the local population and to the Ottoman state, that issues related to the internal security and well-being of the Beirut province generally and the city specifically could be dealt with locally through existing governing bodies. The article thus traces the fierce political games played around the issue of food by various actors seeking to win the hearts of Beirutis through their stomachs.

World War I and the Birth of American Regionalism

1993 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold L. Platt
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War I ◽  
Home Front ◽  
West Point ◽  
Army Corps ◽  
Hydroelectric Power ◽  
Army Corps Of Engineers ◽  
World War ◽  
Niagara Falls ◽  
Grade Steel

Soon after American entry into World War I, Colonel Charles Keller of the Army Corps of Engineers confronted an emergency on the home front that threatened to stymie victory abroad. For several years, the West Point career officer had been in charge of overseeing the development of hydroelectric power at Niagara Falls, New York. Now Keller began receiving urgent messages from manufacturers in nearby Buffalo complaining that shortages of electricity were preventing them from producing vital materials such as high-grade steel for shell casings, aluminum for airplanes, chlorine for poison gas, and other electrochemicals.

ATROCITY PROPAGANDA AND THE NATIONALIZATION OF THE MASSES IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE DURING THE BALKAN WARS (1912–13)

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 759-778 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Doğan Çetinkaya
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Home Front ◽  
World War ◽  
Balkan Wars ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Late Ottoman Empire ◽  
Turkish Language ◽  
Late Ottoman

AbstractDuring the Balkan Wars (1912–13), the mobilization of the home front became significant for the belligerent states, which initiated propaganda activities demonizing their enemies and galvanizing the emotions of their publics. This paper explores one type of such mobilization efforts from above, atrocity propaganda, through which states sought to invoke hatred and mobilize public support for war by focusing on the atrocities (mezalim) that their coreligionists had suffered at the hands of enemies. Although the term “atrocity propaganda” has been used exclusively in the context of World War I in the historiography, the practice it describes was effectively utilized during the earlier Balkan Wars. In the Ottoman Empire, both state and civil initiatives played crucial roles in the making of atrocity propaganda, which was disseminated through intense coverage in the Turkish-language press. The imagery it employed shifted with the onset of the wars, becoming increasingly shocking. Atrocity propaganda contributed to the well-known radicalization of nationalism in the late Ottoman Empire.

scholarly journals For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda and the Home Front

2011 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 384-386
Author(s):  
Barbara Jean Steinson
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Home Front ◽  
World War

scholarly journals Life saving science: English four-year olds’ understanding of injuries and the appropriate first aid treatment

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-90
Author(s):  
Sue Dale Tunnicliffe
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
World War I ◽  
First Aid ◽  
Science Educator ◽  
Small Study ◽  
World War ◽  
Teddy Bear ◽  
Life Saving

This small study conducted by an experienced First aid instructor and science educator sought to establish a baseline pilot study of what actions were observed and identified as injuries and subsequent first aid. A class of 29 four-year-old children were shown 8 nine inch tall Teddy Bears, dressed as World War I pilots. Each Teddy Bear with a simulated injury was shown by the researcher to the child and asked, what could be done to help each injured Teddy. Their responses were recorded by writing and analysed by a read and re-read process with a goal to establish the categories of the child’s rationale for their responses for reason of injuries and actions. A simple appropriate approach was then discussed with each child. The data indicated that children’s main solution to treatment was to ‘put on a bandaid’. The results showed that children had little comprehension of further treatment.

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