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History of Navy Medicine

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In This Photo: Ambulance Boat #1, Mare Island CA-1919

Authors' Page

Here, we highlight published works by Society members.

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BOOKS:

Deppisch, MD, Ludwig M: The White House Physician. A History from Washington to George W. Bush. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2007.

Herman, Jan K: Battle Station Sick Bay: Navy Medicine in World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997.

---: Frozen in Memory: U.S. Navy Medicine in the Korean War. United States of America: Booklocker.com, 2006.

---: Navy Medicine in Vietnam: Oral Histories from Dien Bien Phu to the Fall of Saigon. Jefferson, NC: MacFarland & Company, 2008.

Langley, PhD, Harold D: A History of Medicine in the Early U.S. Navy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Rushton, Patricia, et. al.: Latter Day Saint Nurses at War: A Story of Caring and Sacrifice. Provo, Utah: Millennial Press, 2005. (Amazon.com link)

Steele, MD, Volney W: Wellington Rankin, His Family, Life and Times (Montana Attorney, Physician, Cattle Baron, and Land Baron. Bozeman, MT: Bridger Creek Historical Press, 2002.

---: Bleed, Blister, and Purge: A History of Medicine on the American Frontier. Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2005.

Walker, Jr., M.D, L G: Dr. Henry R. Porter, The Surgeon Who Survived Little Bighorn. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2008.