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Medic: The Mission of an American Military Doctor in Occupied Japan and Wartorn Korea book cover

1st Edition

Medic The Mission of an American Military Doctor in Occupied Japan and Wartorn Korea

By Crawford F. Sams, Zabelle Zakarian Copyright 1998
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge
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In the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Crawford F. Sams led the most unprecedented and unsurpassed reforms in public health history, as chief of the Public Health and Welfare Section of the Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in East Asia. "Medic" is Sams's firsthand account of public health reforms in Japan during the occupation and their significance for the formation of a... Read more
I: Japan; 1: The Perimeter; 2: Tokyo; 3: The Decision: SCAP; 4: First Reconnaissance of Japan; 5: Food Relief and Nutrition; 6: The Reorganization of Health and Welfare; 7: Statistics: A Health and Welfare Tool; 8: The Preventive Medicine Program, Part I: Controlling Wildfire Diseases; 9: The Preventive Medicine Program, Part II: Environmental Sanitation and Viral Diseases; 10: The Preventive Medicine Program, Part III: Treatment and Prevention; 11: The Veterinarians; 12: Medicine and Dentistry; 13: Pharmacy and the Pharmaceutical Industry; 14: Nursing; 15: Hospitals; 16: The Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission; 17: Narcotics Control; 18: Welfare; 19: Social Security; 20: The Communist Activities; 21: The Big Question; 22: Summation of the Occupation; 23: Life in Japan; II: Korea; 24: 1945–1948; 25: 1950–1951; 26: The Breakout; 27: North Korea; 28: The New War; 29: A Complication; 30: A Korean Episode; 31: The Relief of General MacArthur; 32: The Twenty-second of April Offensive; III: Coming Home; III: Return to the United States

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Crawford F. Sams, Zabelle Zakarian, Zabelle Zakarian

"Sams' memoirs are quite readable and should be of interest to military history readers, public health students, and especially to those interested in a first-hand account of Occupation policies. His recollections have obviously been meticulously edited by Zabelle Zakarian." -- The Midwest Book Review

"This book is very highly recommended for its insights into the medical aspects of rebuilding a war damaged country...Sams's career provides useful insights on the interwar preparation of Army officers for the unanticipated aspects of war and peace. The editor is to be congratulated for her wisdom in selecting this manuscript for publication, and for an outstanding editing job." -- Johns Hopkins University Press

"The book offers valuable insight into the culture and politics of healthcare and welfare distribution...It is highly recommended reading." -- Navy Medicine Journal

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