| Preface to the Second Edition | 5 |
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| Preface to the First Edition | 6 |
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| Foreword | 7 |
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| Contents | 8 |
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| Contributors | 13 |
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| Introduction: Players and Paradigms | 17 |
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| Baghdad Christmas | 19 |
| New Paradigms: The Changed World Since 9/ 11 | 20 |
| The World Seems to be Crumbling Around Us | 28 |
| The Spectrum of Conflict | 31 |
| The Players: Humanitarians, Militaries, Industry and Private Security Companies | 45 |
| Interfaces | 88 |
| Conflict and the Media | 102 |
| Remote Medicine | 114 |
| Disasters, Public Health, and Populations | 135 |
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| Disasters: An Overview | 137 |
| Responding to Acute Humanitarian Crises: Health Needs Assessment and Priorities for Intervention | 162 |
| The Military Approach to Medical Planning | 187 |
| Health Risk Management Matrix: A Medical Planning Tool | 198 |
| Surveillance and Control of Communicable Disease in Conflicts and Disasters | 205 |
| Health Planning in Action: Rwanda Crisis | 231 |
| Health Planning in Action “ Operation Phoenix”: A British Medical Aid Program to Sarajevo | 248 |
| Health Care of Prisoners and Detainees | 258 |
| Populations and People | 268 |
| Introduction: Living and Working | 271 |
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| Getting There and Being Involved | 273 |
| Safety and Security | 293 |
| Voices from the Field | 321 |
| Applied Communications in Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine | 329 |
| Mental Health | 351 |
| Introduction: Hospitals and Health Systems | 383 |
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| Conflict Recovery-Health Systems in Transition | 385 |
| Eating an Elephant: Intervening in Hospitals, Pristina | 396 |
| Conflict Surgery: A Personal View | 398 |
| Military Health Services Support in Conflict | 401 |
| Military Medical Assistance to Security Sector Reform | 408 |
| Hospital Blues | 416 |
| Introduction: Clinical Care | 417 |
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| Trauma and Surgery | 419 |
| Acute Medical Problems | 495 |
| Women’s Health | 529 |
| Children’s Health | 543 |
| Conflict, Terrorism, and Disasters: The Psychosocial Consequences forChildren | 554 |
| Introduction: Resources | 569 |
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| Materials and Information | 571 |
| Rehabilitating Diagnostic Laboratories | 590 |
| Enablers and Confounders: Achieving the Mission | 595 |
| Ministry Overlaps Within Health Sectors | 609 |
| Accreditation in Field Medicine | 611 |
| Humanitarian Work in the Era of Modernising Medical Careers | 617 |
| Code of Behaviour | 623 |
| Index | 624 |
