Book Reviews – Black Hawk Down

It is an appropriate time to review this book published 12 months ago, as one of the participants of the “Battle of the Black Sea”, then SFC Bob Mabry, is the keynote speaker at this years AMMA conference. CAPT Bob Mabry MC USA will speak on this battle engagement. On Oct 03 1993, “Task Force… Read more »

By Mark Bowden In   Issue Volume 9 No. 2

Book Reviews – Proud Echo

On the evening of 28th February 1942, the Australian light cruiser, PERTH, and the American heavy cruiser, HOUSTON, having survived the disastrous Battle of the Java Sea, sailed from the port of Batavia to force a passage through Sunda Strait to the Indian Ocean, where they hoped to join with other Allied naval units. During… Read more »

By Ronald McKie In   Issue Volume 9 No. 2

Book Reviews – The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A tale of murder, madness and the Oxford English dictionary

For a total change of pace, Simon Winchester’s ‘The Surgeon of Crowthorne’ is a beguiling and erudite true story. The story centres around two distinguished-looking Victorians, both learned and serious, yet from very different worlds: Dr James Murray, a towering figure of British scholarship and editor of the great Oxford English Dictionary; and Dr W…. Read more »

By Simon Winchester In   Issue Volume 9 No. 1

Book Reviews – Vic Jeffery

The U-Boat Far From Home. The epic voyage of U-862 to Australia and New Zealand by David Stevens I was delighted when I learnt that the Department of Defence’s Director of Naval Historical Studies, David Stevens, was to write a book on the German submarine offensive against Australia during World War Two. A former naval… Read more »

By Vic Jeffery In   Issue Volume 6 No. 1

Book Reviews – Andrew Robertson

SSN- Strategies of Submarine Warfare Tom Clancy Harper Collins: London 1996 This is a fiction work by Tom Clancy based on ‘SSN’. a CD-ROM game by Simon and Schuster Interactive. The book looks at 15 different submarine scenarios based on a limited regional war between China and the United States over the Spratly Islands in… Read more »

By Andrew Robertson In   Issue Volume 6 No. 2

Book Reviews – Vic Jeffery

Few Survived. A History of Submarine Disasters Edwin Gray Since the first submarines of the 18th century through to 1995, some 1761 submarines were lost world wide. 313 by accident or error, and the remaining 1,148 being war losses. This is the first comprehensive account of every peacetime submarine disaster from 1774 to the present… Read more »

By Vic Jeffery In   Issue Volume 6 No. 2

Lessons Learned: The Australian Military and Tropical Medicine

P Leggat *Quail GG. Lessons Learned: The Australian Military and Tropical Medicine. Newport: Big Sky Publishing, 2017. ISBN 978-1-925520-22-4. Hardback. 254 pp AUD34.99 (also available as an eBook) Throughout the history of modern war, tropical diseases have played a significant role in determining the outcome of various military campaigns through the ages. For example, malaria… Read more »

In   Issue Volume 26 No. 1 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/05.2021-15971747/JMVH Vol 26 No 1

Logistics in The Falklands War

Captain Arthur M. Smith The recent Australian Defence White Paper 2016 defined the unique security challenges facing thenation. Strategic planning within the document includes recognition of the regional and global nature of the nation’s security interests, and the very different sets of challenges that are created for the defence force by state, and also non-state actors such as terrorists…. Read more »

In   Issue Volume 25 No. 1 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/05.2021-81638217/JMVH Vol 25 No 1

High G Flight: Physiological Effects and Countermeasures

P. Leggat High G flight is a significant challenge facing crew in high performance military aircraft, spacecraft, and in some other settings, such as acrobatic and tourismbased fighter jet aircraft in the civilian sector. It may also be experienced in high G simulators and commercial fighter jet tourist experiences. G is defined as “a dimensionless ratio which expresses the applied acceleration that… Read more »

In   Issue Volume 25 No. 1 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/05.2021-33363227/JMVH Vol 25 No 1

Constant Care

Reviewed  by CAPT  RMSG John Knight (Retired) The subtitle of the book is “The Royal  Australian Navy  Health Services, 1915 to 2002.” The dedication  is to the memory of all Medical and Dental  Officers and Sick Berth Staff who were killed in action  or died on active service in World War Two. John  Jeppesen was well known… Read more »

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Framework for a Public Health Emergency Operations Centre

In 2013, the Public Health Emergency Operations Centre Network (EOC-NET) of the World Health Organization (WHO) embarked on a project to develop a framework for public health emergency operation centres (EOCs). This included systematic reviews of public health EOCs (PHEOCs) as well as EOC-related plans and procedures; communication technology and infrastructure; minimum datasets and standards; and training and exercises.1 These were conducted in parallel… Read more »

By Peter Leggat In   Issue Volume 24 No.1 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/05.2021-11519441/JMVH Vol 24 No 1

The Practical Compendium of Immunisations for International Travel

In the context of protecting travellers going abroad, “vaccination is a highly effective method of preventing certain infectious diseases”.1 At last here is a practical manual for travel immunisations which is relevant for this region, and is an ideal companion in the clinic for The Australian Immunisation Handbook2 and similar guidelines for the region. The Practical Compendium of Immunisations for International Travel brings… Read more »

By Marc Shaw and Claire Wong In   Issue Volume 24 No.1 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/05.2021-73459182/JMVH Vol 24 No 1

Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine* Peter Cameron, George Jelinek, Anne-Marie Kelly, Anthony F.T. Brown and Mark Little

*4th edn, 1104 pp, paperback with illustrations, ISBN: 978-0-7020-5335-1. Sydney, Churchill Livingstone (an imprint of Elsevier), RRP: $114.74, 2014. The International Federation for Emergency Medicine definition of emergency medicine is provided in the Introduction of the Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine, which defines the areas as: “a field of practice based on the knowledge and… Read more »

By Peter Leggat In   Issue Volume 23 No. 2 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/11.2021-82122667/JMVH Vol 23 No 2

Pioneers of Medicine without a Nobel Prize* Gilbert Thompson (Editor)

*Thompson G (Ed). Pioneers of Medicine without a Nobel Prize. London: Imperial College Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-78326-383-7. Hardback. 296 pp USD128 (also available as softcover and eBook) The Nobel Prize was established in 1901 using a bequest from Alfred Nobel and is probably the most highly regarded international award. Nobel prizes are currently awarded annually… Read more »

By Peter Leggat In   Issue Volume 23 No. 2 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/11.2021-71863555/JMVH Vol 23 No 2

Starlight: An Australian Army Doctor in Vietnam

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By Peter Leggat In   Issue Volume 20 No. 3 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/11.2021-52342856/JMVH Vol 20 No 3

Epidemiology

Petra Buttner and Reinhold Muller* *1st edn, (xxiv) + 600 pp, paperback with extensive illustrations, Oxford, Oxford University Press, RRP: $83.95, 2011. ISBN: 9780195573893 The field of epidemiology is a science and it remains “one of the many contributors to guiding action” in public health.1 The field is crowded with published books with over 9500… Read more »

By Peter Leggat In   Issue Volume 20 No. 2 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/11.2021-66877486/JMVH Vol 20 No 2

Toxicology Handbook

Lindsay Murray, Frank Daly, Mark Little and Mike Cadogan* *2nd edn, xii + 529 pp, paperback with illustrations, ISBN: 978-0-7295-3939-5. Sydney, Churchill Livingstone (Imprint of Elsevier), RRP: $69.95, 2010. There are many excellent toxicology textbooks available internationally, including the recently published 9th edition of Goldfrank’s Toxicologic Emergencies.1 These are wonderful resources for those seeking a… Read more »

By Peter Leggat In   Issue Volume 19 No. 4 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/11.2021-51281821/JMVH Vol 19 No 4

Creating Environmental and Occupational Health

Derek R. Smith* *1st edition, xxi+170 pp, paperback with illustrations (available as Hardcover), ISBN 978-1921364129, Sydney, Darlington Press, 2010. Journal publications and their citations have become the common currency of academia, which has led to the development of such measures as the h-index and the m-parameter.1 In the field of environmental and occupational health (EOH),… Read more »

By Peter Leggat In   Issue Volume 19 No. 3 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/11.2021-34498393/JMVH Vol 19 No 3

General Practice: The Integrative Approach

General Practice: The Integrative Approach is a contemporary colossus of Australian textbooks of general practice. For GPs wanting a wide-ranging general practice reference, then the first edition of the General Practice: The Integrative Approach is one of the most current of the major textbooks and one which is highly relevant to general practice in Australia…. Read more »

By Peter Leggat In   Issue Volume 19 No. 2 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/11.2021-25214668/JMVH Vol 19 No 2

Therapeutic Guidelines – Antibiotic

*Version 14. xxxiv+445pp, paperback, ISBN 978-0-9804764-7-7. Melbourne, Therapeutic Guidelines Limited, AUD39.00, 2010. Apart from major textbooks of infectious disease, there have been few books published specifically on guidelines related to antibiotics. Therapeutic Guidelines: Antibiotic, part of a collection of 14 in the series of the popular and respected Therapeutic Guidelines series in Australia, is now… Read more »

By Peter Leggat In   Issue Volume 18 No. 4 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/11.2021-26297394/JMVH Vol 18 No 4