Making Sense of Disaster Medicines

The essential guide for all practising medical students and medics who may find themselves responding to incidents on the scale of the 7 July 2005 terrorist bomb blasts in London, and the Lockerbie air disaster of 1988.

Disaster Medicine: Evolution of a Specialty The Medical Response to Domestic Terrorism and Major Incident Management Managing National Mass Casualty Incidents Classification of Disasters Pre- and Post-Deployment Medicine in the Field Surgery in Disasters Psychological Aspects of Conflict and Catastrophe Marginalized Groups in Disasters Healthcare in Refugee Populations The Realities of War The Hazards of the Job The Ethics of Disaster Medicine Electives in the Developing World