Physical description

Thin paperback book with red and bone coloured cover. There is a red panel running down the left side of the cover that wraps around the spine, at the bottom of the panel is an hour glass. To the right of the panel the cover is a bone colour with red writing that reads : Volume 6. Number 2. 2004 /Health and History / Military Medicine: / Special issue / Guest editor / Peter Stanley / Journal of the Australian Society of the History of Medicine

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

'To Col. Jan McCarthy, and the members of the Victorian Returned Services Nurses Club, with gratitude and respect' [Handwritten in pen on title page]
'Janet Butler' [hand signed in blue ink on the title page]
'RETURNED & SERVICES NURSES CLUB OF VIC SUB BRANCH R.S.L. [Purple ink stamp on title page]
'16 June 2005 / Dear Col. Mc Carthy, Please find enclosed a copy of the journal 'Health and History', as a token of my thanks for your help with the article. / (I have referred to your assistance in footnote 59, page 31.) / I hope that it will prove a useful addition to the library./ kindest regards Janet Butler' [Handwritten note written in blue ink on a Latrobe University Postgraduate History Program letterhead and inserted into the book]

Summary

Peer reviewed research journal carries papers on all aspects of the history of medicine and health with focus on Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific region; book reviews; includes Australian Indigenous health and history. [From Trove]
This special edition focuses on military medicine.