Mark Harrison is Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford. He is the author of many books and articles on the history of medicine, war and imperialism, and on the history of disease. He currently holds a fellowship at Green Templeton College and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is winner of the Templer Medal Book Prize, awarded by the Society for Army Historical Research in 2005 for Medicine and Victory: British Military Medicine in the Second World War.

Harrison has a keen eye for societal, political, circumstantial and ideological influences on medical policy ... he makes perfectly clear the enormous importance of medicine and healthcare in general for waging (a victorious) war ... an excellent book.

• Introduction ; 1. Building the medical machine: the Western Front, 1914 - June 1916 ; 2. The machine in motion: the Western Front, July 1916 - November 1918 ; 3. War, health, and citizenship: preventive medicine on the Western Front ; 4. Gallipoli: the failure of command ; 5. 'Wonder and pain': Mesopotamia, November 1914 - May 1916 ; 6. War against nature: malaria in Salonika, East Africa, and the Middle East ; 7. Military medicine in transition: Mesopotamia, June 1916 - November 1918 ; Conclusion ; Bibliography

Mark Harrison is Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford. He is the author of many books and articles on the history of medicine, war and imperialism, and on the history of disease. He currently holds a fellowship at Green Templeton College and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is winner of the Templer Medal Book Prize, awarded by the Society for Army Historical Research in 2005 for Medicine and Victory: British Military Medicine in the Second World War.

Harrison has a keen eye for societal, political, circumstantial and ideological influences on medical policy ... he makes perfectly clear the enormous importance of medicine and healthcare in general for waging (a victorious) war ... an excellent book.

• Introduction ; 1. Building the medical machine: the Western Front, 1914 - June 1916 ; 2. The machine in motion: the Western Front, July 1916 - November 1918 ; 3. War, health, and citizenship: preventive medicine on the Western Front ; 4. Gallipoli: the failure of command ; 5. 'Wonder and pain': Mesopotamia, November 1914 - May 1916 ; 6. War against nature: malaria in Salonika, East Africa, and the Middle East ; 7. Military medicine in transition: Mesopotamia, June 1916 - November 1918 ; Conclusion ; Bibliography

Mark Harrison is Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford. He is the author of many books and articles on the history of medicine, war and imperialism, and on the history of disease. He currently holds a fellowship at Green Templeton College and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is winner of the Templer Medal Book Prize, awarded by the Society for Army Historical Research in 2005 for Medicine and Victory: British Military Medicine in the Second World War.

Harrison has a keen eye for societal, political, circumstantial and ideological influences on medical policy ... he makes perfectly clear the enormous importance of medicine and healthcare in general for waging (a victorious) war ... an excellent book.

• Introduction ; 1. Building the medical machine: the Western Front, 1914 - June 1916 ; 2. The machine in motion: the Western Front, July 1916 - November 1918 ; 3. War, health, and citizenship: preventive medicine on the Western Front ; 4. Gallipoli: the failure of command ; 5. 'Wonder and pain': Mesopotamia, November 1914 - May 1916 ; 6. War against nature: malaria in Salonika, East Africa, and the Middle East ; 7. Military medicine in transition: Mesopotamia, June 1916 - November 1918 ; Conclusion ; Bibliography