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Battle Station Sick Bay. Navy Medicine in World War II

Jan K Herman Naval Institute Press; 1997 This recent offering from the Naval Institute Press is a highly readable collection of personal accounts from USN personnel serving in a variety…

Editorial – A Varied Lot

Waxing lyrical as always, your Editor feels a need to touch on a number of diverse topics in his Editorial. A Varied Lot This edition of the Journal offers, once…

Fast women: Or why women who fly high performance aircraft are fast but not loose

This paper won the ‘Weary Dunlop Award for the best Paper read by a member at the 1997 AMMA Annual Scientific Conference. Introduction Women entering a male dominated sphere for…

Hostile Waters

Peter Huchthausen, Igor Kurdin and R Alan White Random House; 1997 'Truth is often stranger than fiction' so the old saying goes. It's also more exciting as this publication clearly…

Regional Health Support Agency South Queensland Donations to AMMA Library

The Regional Health Support Agency South Queensland has, through the kind offices of the Director of Health Services, Colonel Vlas Efstathis, OAM, RFD, RAAMC, donated three books to the Australian…

Sometimes you hear the bullet

The comedy/drama MASH, which concerned the lives of American army medical staff stationed just behind the front lines in the Korean War, was one of the most successful television programs…

Injuries and outcome after laparotomy in gunshot wound patients who have minimal bleeding

During 1990-1, 970 patients with gunshot wounds (GSW) were admitted to Los Angeles County – USC Medical Center. Of the 686 patients with trunk GSW, 433 had wounds of the…

Editorial – Operational medicine

This issue of Australian Military Medicine concentrates, like the last, on operational medicine, which is the backbone of military medicine. Continuing from their earlier article, Payne et al have analysed…

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…

Abstracts from the Literature – James Ross

Feuerstein M et al. Musculoskeletal-related disability in US Army personnel: Prevalence, gender and military occupational specialties. J Dec Environ Med 1997;39(1):68-78 Research on military populations indicates that musculoskeletal-related disorders represent…