World War I Centennial Commemoration Curriculum

Affiliated Hospitals Go To War

• Medical Patriotism: The University Units and Base Hospitals of World War I
  [PDF 3.32MB]
  by Michael Trotter

American Psychiatry

• Responses of the American Army Medical Department (AAMD) to Mental Disorders During World War I
  [PDF 5.58MB]
  by William Hannigan

Aviators and Patients

• An American Doctor in the Czar's Army
  [PDF 11.9MB]
  by Kevin Hymel
• Whizz-bang Suits and Aeroplanes: Memories of Pilot Medical Exams from the Letters of Homer Handy
  [PDF 1.55MB]
  • Presentation Paper
    [PDF 600KB]
  by Connie Wallace

Battlefield Medicine

by George Thompson

• The Golden Hour: American Battlefield Medicine in World War I
  [PDF 7.29MB]
  • Presentation paper
    [PDF 143KB]
• Battlefield Medicine: The American Response to Gas Gangrene on the Western Front
  [PDF 5.24MB]
  • Presentation paper
    [PDF 86KB]
• Lessons of War: Defining Human Boundaries
  [PDF 4.65MB]
  • Presentation paper
    [PDF 63KB]

Beyond the Western Front

• Enquiries into African Medical Services During World War I
  [PDF 1.99MB]
  by Dr. Anne Samson

Clinical Advances

• Gastrointestinal Infections: The British and U.S. Army Experiences in World War I
  [PDF 1.78MB]
  by Bradford Waters

Doctors and Politicians

• Disease and Civil-Military Relations: Senator George Chamberlain and Criticism of the War Department
  [PDF 637KB]
  by Eric Setzekorn
• The American Expeditionary Force's Venereal Disease Campaign 1917-1919
  [PDF 3.3MB]
  • Presentation Paper -
    [PDF 427KB]
  by Allen Skinner

Doctors in Wartime

• “Dr. Nellie” – A Physician’s Experience in the Great War
  [PDF 3.42MB]
  by Johannes Allert

Facial Wounds

• Faces of War: Medical and Social Responses to Traumatic Facial Wounds of the First World War
  [PDF 4.09MB]
  by John Haymond

Flu Hits the U.S.

• Camp Meade, Maryland, and the Influenza Epidemic of 1918
  [PDF 1.78MB]
  by Kathleen Fargey

Medical Support of the Big Red One

• WWI: US Army 1st Division and Sanitary Corps Medical Training in the Western Front, Eyewitness Notes by Col. B.K Ashford 1917-1918
  [PDF 1.6MB]
• Col. B.K. Ashford Introduction to WW I Combat Medicine, USS Relief, Hormigueros "Silva Heights" Firefight & the Skirmish at Las Marias, Notes on the Puerto Rico Western Campaign
  [PDF 761KB]
  by Dr. J. Edwin Nieves
  and Dr. Kathleen Stack
  
  
• First in Peace, First in War, First at Cantigny: The 1st Sanitary Train, 1st Division, in the Great War
  [PDF 7.33MB]
  by Dr. Donald Hall
  and Lewis Barger
  
  

Mobilizing American Medicine

• American Medicine Goes to War Video [MP4 53.5MB]
  by Charles Van Way

Shell Shock

• Psychiatry and World War I Shell Shock
  Watch historian Rachel Levandoski gives an illustrated talk about the development of military psychiatry in response to World War I shell shock.
  by Rachel Levandoski

Surgery

by Gerald Stulc

• The Evolution of Abdominal Surgery in the First World War
  [PDF 2.26MB]
• The Antecedents and Evolution of Abdominal Surgery for Trauma in World War I
  [PDF 216KB]

U.S. Navy Medicine

• The Influence of Spanish Influenza Upon U.S. Naval Operations in European Waters
  [PDF 603KB]
  • Presentation Paper
    [PDF 501KB]
  by Tom Snyder