Focuses on doctors and nurses in wartime casualty clearing stations, hospitals and prison camps

Carol Acton is Associate Professor of English at St Jerome's University at the University of Waterloo

Introduction
1. 'These frightful sights would work havoc with one's brain': First World War writings by medical personnel
2. 'Over There': American confidence and the narrative of resilience in the Great War
3. 'You damn well just got on with your job': medical personnel and the invasion of Europe in the Second World War
4. 'It was a tough life and I did all I could to lighten the men's burden': British P.O.W. medics' memoirs of the Second World War
5. Claiming trauma: Women in the Vietnam War
6. Crying silently: doctors and medics in the Vietnam War
7. Fatal Injury
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index