Published Volumes

Book Explores US Armed Forces Needs Relating to Future Military Engagements

Borden Institute Releases Military Preventive Medicine: Mobilization and Deployment, Volume 2

Washington, DC – Reflecting the significant growth and evolution of military preventive medicine, and completing a 2-volume set, Borden Institute has released its latest book in the Textbooks of Military Medicine series.

Military Preventive Medicine: Mobilization and Deployment, Volume 2, offers comprehensive research on a range of topics related to preventive medicine, including the exploration of epidemiology in the field, various infectious diseases, preventive medicine efforts following disasters and the effects of postdeployment on soldiers.

“Future military engagements will often evolve rapidly and put a premium on conserving scarce, highly trained, human resources. Central to the conservation of human resources are the needs for knowledgeable leadership, an understanding of the lessons of past conflicts, and systemic estimates of the medical threat prior to exposure; this new volume in the Textbooks of Military Medicine series reflects these needs,” said Army Surgeon General Lieutenant General Kevin C. Kiley.

“Preventive Medicine has an important tertiary prevention role that must be vigorously pursued if service members are to be successfully rehabilitated and avoid having their relatively manageable physical or mental problems evolve into long-term disabilities,” said Patrick W. Kelley, MD (COL, MC, US Army, Ret), the book’s editor and Director of the Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.

“Military Preventive Medicine: Mobilization and Deployment provides a comprehensive approach to protecting the force in the current context of the US military’s global security mission,” Kelley said.

The Borden Institute, Office of The Surgeon General, US Army, was conceived in 1986. The Borden Institute’s publications are available free of charge to qualified US military medical personnel. Each book is a comprehensive reference on the art and science of military medicine, extensively illustrated, and written in an easy-to-follow narrative. The books are designed to show how military medicine has built on the lessons learned in past wars and lays out the scientific basis on which the practice of military medicine is grounded.

The Borden Institute offers volumes in hardback, as well as on its website and on CD-ROM.

For more information on the Borden Institute and how to order the publications, visit the organization online at www.bordeninstitute.army.mil.