| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 207 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Modern Southeast Asia series
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Modern Southeast Asia series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Previous use of medical care for foreign civilians -- The ad hoc programs -- Formal MEDCAP, MILPHAP, CWAP, etc. -- Medical evaluation of the programs -- Evaluation of the programs as a policy tool. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
American soldiers have provided medical aid to civilians in many wars, and no less in the Vietnam War, where there were more than forty million contacts between U.S. medical personnel and Vietnamese civilians. Robert J. Wilensky, using data derived from extensive archival research as well as his personal experience in Vietnam, shows how medical aid to Vietnamese civilians, at first based simply on good will, became policy. The original Medical Civic Action Program (MEDCAP), by which unit medical teams treated civilians in their area, soon expanded to other acronymically designated programs: the Military Provincial Hospital (later Health) Assistance Program (MILPHAP), the Civilian War Casualty Program (CWCP), and the Provincial Health Assistance Program (PHAP). Although MEDCAP treated many, American doctors were uniformly unhappy about the superficial care they were able to give. Labs, x-ray machines, and surgery were not available at the unit level; follow-up was sketchy or nonexistent. Other programs became so politicized that they were almost ineffective. Coordination with the government of South Vietnam was poor, creating areas that were underserved. Most important, there is no evidence that the good will built by U.S. doctors transferred to South Vietnamese forces. American programs may have emphasized the inability of the Republic of Vietnam to provide basic health care to its own people and may have demonstrated to Vietnamese civilians that foreign soldiers cared more for them than their own troops did. If that is the case, the programs actually did more harm than good in the attempt to win hearts and minds. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Vietnam War (1961-1975) |
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Medical care.
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Medical care. |
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Medical care -- Vietnam.
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Vietnam. |
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Military Medicine -- history. |
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Vietnam Conflict. |
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1961-1975 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Medical care. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Wilensky, Robert J. Military medicine to win hearts and minds. Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press, ©2004 0896725324 (DLC) 2004002606 (OCoLC)54415874 |
| ISBN |
1423762630 (electronic book) |
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9781423762638 (electronic book) |
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1281093289 |
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9781281093288 |
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0896725324 (Cloth) |
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9780896725324 (alkaline paper) |
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