This year, you could hardly have missed it: It is 100 years since the First World War started. We have already seen many services of remembrance, commemorations, conferences and exhibitions. At the same time, there has been increasing attention paid to re-evaluating the role of medical aid during the war, not only in medical history magazines, but also in more generalist journals like First World War Studies, which has regularly published medicine-related articles. A book on British medical aid has recently been published (Harrison 2010), as has a book containing chapters on medical aid in Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Hofer, Pruell, and Eckart 2011).
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