A heavy reckoning : war, medicine and survival in Afghanistan and beyond / Emily Mayhew.

London : Profile Books ; London : Wellcome Collection, [2017]

311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color photographs : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; The War in Afghanistan: Timeline; Part One: Afghanistan; Chapter 1: 'Blood is the argument'; Chapter 2: Scott Meenagh; Chapter 3: Mark Ormrod (1); Chapter 4: The Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT); Chapter 5: The Deal; Chapter 6: Field Hospital Camp Bastion (Bastion); Chapter 7: Mark Ormrod (2); Chapter 8: Bastion's Medics; Chapter 9: History; Chapter 10: Critical Care; Chapter 11: Critical Care Air Support Team (CCAST); Part Two: Home; Chapter 12: Birmingham; Chapter 13: The Duty Critical Care Nurse; Chapter 14: Mark Ormrod (3)

Chapter 15: Mark Ormrod (4)Chapter 16: Rehabilitation: Headley Court; Chapter 17: Sockets and Stumps; Chapter 18: Mark Ormrod (5); Chapter 19: A Short History of Headley Court and Its Garden (neither of which is as old as it looks); Chapter 20: Sockets and Stumps and Pain; Chapter 21: PTSD (Trauma Reaction); Part Three: Beyond; Chapter 22: The Engineer: Dave Henson; Chapter 23: A Centre for Blast Injury Studies; Chapter 24: Mark Ormrod (6); Chapter 25: Sockets and Stumps and Science; Chapter 26: Complex Outcomes, Chronic Pain and PTSD; Epilogue: Medics; Notes; Acknowledgements

A Note on the PhotographsColour Plates; Index

Published in association with Wellcome Collection.