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Volume 6 Number 2

July 1997

In this issue

Peer-reviewed research, commentary and history from across military and veterans’ health.

A study of morbidity in the Australian Defence Force. The 6 RAAF Hospital Morbidity Study 1993-94

Introduction This study was designed to document the morbidity of a population of Australian military servicemen and women. Methods The study was conducted in the outpatient departments of No 6…

Abstract from the Literature – James Ross

Griffiths GD, Lindsay CD, Allenby AC, Bailey SC, Scawin JW, Rice P, Upshall DG. Protection against inhalation toxicity of ricin and abrin by immunization. Human arid Experimental Toxicology 1995; 14:155-64…

Abstracts from the Literature – Douglas J. Fahlbusch

Macintyre P. Treating acute pain: The Royal Adelaide approach. Medical Review (Journal of AMA SAJ) 1997; Feh:10 – 1 Comment: Major improvements in the delivery of analgesia, especially post-operative, are…

Artificial intelligence and expert systems – their application to military medicine

In the early 1950s, the British mathematician Alan Turing argued that for a computer to be described as intelligent it must be able to deceive a human into believing that…

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.…

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…

How purple will be the white coat?

The forces of change impacting on the Australian Defence Force, and in particular the Defence Health Service, are making themselves felt. These changes are significant, and will produce a significant…

The Aerospace Medicine Association Conference. 11-15 May 1197, Chicago

A possibly newly reported aviation-related syndrome was described by Rich Williams, an Aerospace Medicine resident. It has long been known among civilian aerobatic performers that exposure to large amounts of…