Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War by Cook, Tim
Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War by Cook, Tim

Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War

From Canada's top war historian, a definitive medical history of the Great War, illuminating how the carnage...
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Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War by Cook, Tim

Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War

$43.03
Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War by Cook, Tim

Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War

$43.03
Author: Tim Cook
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
From Canada's top war historian, a definitive medical history of the Great War, illuminating how the carnage of modern battle gave birth to revolutionary--and sometimes shocking--life-saving innovations.

Medical care in almost all armies during the Great War, and especially in the Canadian medical services, was sophisticated and constantly evolving. Vastly more wounded soldiers were saved than lost. Doctors and surgeons prevented disease from decimating armies, confronted ghastly wounds from chemical weapons, remade shattered bodies, and struggled to ease soldiers' battle-haunted minds. After the war, the hard lessons learned by doctors and nurses were brought back to Canada.

But medical advances were not the only thing brought back from Europe: Lifesavers and Body Snatchers exposes the disturbing story of the harvesting of human body parts in medical units behind the lines. Almost 800 individual body parts were removed from the dead and sent to London, England, where they were stored, treated, and presented in exhibition galleries. After being exhibited there, the body parts were displayed in Canada. This uncovered history has never been told before and is part of the hidden legacy of the medical war.

Based on deep archival research and unpublished letters of soldiers and medical personnel, Lifesavers and Body Snatchers is a powerful narrative, told in Tim Cook's classic literary style, which reveals how the medical services supported the soldiers at the front and forged a profound legacy in shaping Canadian public health in the decades that followed.

Author: Tim Cook
Publisher: Penguin Books Canada
Published: 09/19/2023
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780735242333

About the Author
TIM COOK is Chief Historian and Director of Research at the Canadian War Museum. His bestselling books have won multiple awards, including three Ottawa Book prizes for Literary Non-Fiction and two C.P. Stacey Awards for the best book in Canadian military history. In 2008 he won the J.W. Dafoe Prize for At the Sharp End and again in 2018 for Vimy The Battle and the Legend. Shock Troops won the 2009 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. Cook is a frequent commentator in the media, and a member of the Royal Society of Canada and the Order of Canada.


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