Introduction: Players and Paradigms -- Baghdad Christmas -- New Paradigms: The Changed World Since 9/11 -- The World Seems to be Crumbling Around Us -- The Spectrum of Conflict -- The Players: Humanitarians, Militaries, Industry and Private Security Companies -- Interfaces -- Conflict and the Media -- Remote Medicine -- Disasters, Public Health, and Populations -- Disasters: An Overview -- Responding to Acute Humanitarian Crises: Health Needs Assessment and Priorities for Intervention -- The Military Approach to Medical Planning -- Health Risk Management Matrix: A Medical Planning Tool -- Surveillance and Control of Communicable Disease in Conflicts and Disasters -- Health Planning in Action: Rwanda Crisis -- Health Planning in Action “Operation Phoenix”: A British Medical Aid Program to Sarajevo -- Health Care of Prisoners and Detainees -- Populations and People -- Introduction: Living and Working -- Getting There and Being Involved -- Safety and Security -- Voices from the Field -- Applied Communications in Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine -- Mental Health -- Introduction: Hospitals and Health Systems -- Conflict Recovery-Health Systems in Transition -- Eating an Elephant: Intervening in Hospitals, Pristina -- Conflict Surgery: A Personal View -- Military Health Services Support in Conflict -- Military Medical Assistance to Security Sector Reform -- Hospital Blues -- Introduction: Clinical Care -- Trauma and Surgery -- Acute Medical Problems -- Women's Health -- Children's Health -- Conflict, Terrorism, and Disasters: The Psychosocial Consequences for Children -- Introduction: Resources -- Materials and Information -- Rehabilitating Diagnostic Laboratories -- Enablers and Confounders: Achieving the Mission -- Ministry Overlaps Within Health Sectors -- Accreditation in Field Medicine -- Humanitarian Work in the Era of Modernising Medical Careers.

The second revised, expanded and updated edition of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine: A Practical Guide provides a framework for use by health professionals visiting a resource-constrained environment. Since the first edition was written in 2002, there have been seismic changes following on from the terrorist assault on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. The Middle East, the Far East and parts of Africa are convulsed by conflict, much of them verging on civil war. Further, natural disasters of staggering scale have occurred since the first edition –Tsunamis in South East Asia, Earthquakes in Iran, Turkey, and Pakistan and a monster Hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. The working environment for the prospective humanitarian volunteer has changed forever. Encompassing problems brought about by local conflict or natural disasters, this book covers preparation, organisation, logistics, treatment of major trauma and medical emergencies, and the special problems of delivering medicine in a hostile environment. Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine: A Practical Guide comprehensively tackles: - self-preparation of health professionals to face a range of medical and related problems which occur in hostile and remote environments; - war and disaster medicine, covering acute management, rehabilitation, reconstruction and prevention; - bridging the fields of medicine, nursing, international relations, history, politics and economics. Other topics covered include nutrition, infection, trauma, psychiatry and psychological medicine and training. James M Ryan Leonard Cheshire Professor at UCL, London, UK Alan Hawley OBE Director, Conflict and Catastrophe Faculty at Society of Apothecaries & Major General DGAMS, UK David Burris Professor & Chairman, Department of Surgery, United Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA Adriaan Hopperus-Buma Netherlands Convenor for Diploma in the Medical Care of Catastrophes (DMMC). Medical Services, Royal Netherlands Navy, Amsterdam, Netherlands Peter F Mahoney OBE Consultant in Anaesthetics and Resuscitation, Defence Medical Services, Birmingham, UK