Making Sense of a Disaster
A Hands-On Guide for Medics
ISBN13: 9780340967560ISBN10: 0340967560
Paperback,
Oct 2010,
In Stock
Price:
$35.00 (05)A Hodder Arnold Publication
Description
Diaster medicine emcompasses the medical response to mass casualty incidents including rail, air and road traffic accidents, domestic terrorism and pandemic outbacks, as well as the global issues of conflict and natural catastrophe. Where once this area was regarded as a niche interest of those wishing to carry out humanitarian assistance abroad, now it is to be a nationally-regulated field with intercollegiate support and a firm academic basis.Making Sense of Disaster Medicine is the first introductory text of its kind where leaders in the field of medicine; it provides essential reading for all medical students on the scale of the 7 July 2005 terrorist bomb blasts in London, or the December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.
Features
- The first introductory text of its kind on disaster medicine, written by leaders in the field
- Easy-to-digest layout, featuring learning objectives, clinical considerations and fascinating case-studies
- Suitable for all medical students and professionals
- Robust and portable pocket-sized work
- Part of the highly successful 'Making Sense' series
About the Author(s)
Major General Alan Hawley, OBE, QHP (Honorary Physician to The Queen), Director General of Army Medical Services, and honorary academic at Liverpool & Birmingham Unis. President of the Faculty of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine at the Society of Apothecanes.
James IDM Matheson, GEP med student St George's Univsersity Hospital London, and student representative of the Faculty of Conflict & Catastrophe Medicine at the Society of Apothecaries.
