Making Sense of Disaster Medicines

Disaster Medicine is a broad and dynamic field that encompasses the medical and surgical response to mass casualty incidents including rail, air and road traffic accidents, domestic terrorism, and pandemic outbreaks, as well as the global issues of conflict and natural catastrophe. With conflict and catastrophe never far from today’s news, Disaster Medicine is growing in importance for all medics at home as well as abroad. Making Sense of Disaster Medicine is essential reading for all medical students and professionals who may find themselves responding to incidents on the scale of the July 2005 London bombings or the May 2008 Chinese earthquake. * The ideal introductory guide to Disaster Medicine * With contributions by international authorities in the field * Easy-to-read layout, featuring ‘thinking points’, ‘pearls of wisdom’ and ‘hazards’ * Each chapter concludes with a summary and list of key resources * Part of the highly successful 'Making Sense' series Table of Contents: 1. Introduction James Matheson and Alan Hawley 2. Disaster medicine: Evolution of a specialty Maurice A Ramirez 3. The medical response to domestic terrorism and major incident management JPG Bolton 4. Managing national mass casualty incidents Pietro D Marghella 5. Classification of disasters Roland MF Gill 6. Pre- and post-deployment Ken Roberts 7. Medicine in the field Tim O'Dempsey 8. Surgery in disasters James Ryan 9. Psychological aspects of conflict and catastrophe Ian Palmer 10. Marginalized groups in disasters Maria Kett 11. Healthcare in refugee populations Aroop Mozumder 12. The realities of war Jonathan Kaplan, an anonymous military author and Laith K. Alrubaiy 13. The hazards of the job David Lloyd Roberts 14. The ethics of Disaster Medicine Daniel K Sokol 15. Electives in the developing dorld Mark Wilson About the Author(s): James IDM Matheson MBBS, BA (Hons), Academic Foundation Doctor, Academic Foundation Programme, Royal Lancaster Infirmary, Catastrophes & Conflict Forum, Royal Society of Medicine, Faculty of Conflict & Catastrophe Medicine, Society of Apothecaries, London, UK. Alan Hawley, OBE QHP, Professor of Disaster Medicine, Professor of Disaster Studies and Director of the Disasters and Resilience Centre, University of Glamorgan, UK