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Item Details
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CONFLICT AND CATASTROPHE MEDICINE
A PRACTICAL GUIDE |
| By: |
Adriaan P. C. C. Hopperus Buma (Editor), David Burris (Editor), Alan Hawley (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£72.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
184800351X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781848003514 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER LONDON LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 2009 |
| Edition: |
2nd ed. 2009 |
| Pages: |
664 |
| Description: |
This guide covers what health care professionals need to know for work in hostile and remote environments. It addresses medicine, preparation, organization and logistics and also advises volunteers on how to keep healthy and stay safe. |
| Synopsis: |
A 'how-to' book for medical aid workers - doctors, nurses and paramedics - working in hostile environments (natural disasters, man-made disasters, conflict in all its forms and remote or austere industrial settings). This manual provides information on what is going on, how to get involved, how to get ready, guidance on what to do out there, and how to get home bridging the fields of medicine, nursing international relations, politics, economics and history. |
| Illustrations: |
12 black & white illustrations, 42 colour illustrations, 31 black & white |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Springer London Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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