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The International Committee of the Red Cross and the medical services of the Armed Forces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Frédéric de Mulinen*
Affiliation:
Controller in charge of Management Control and Planning, ICRC

Extract

“Ways and means of remedying the inadequacy of the medical services of armies in the field” was the study undertaken by an international conference convened at Geneva, in October 1863, by a committee of five citizens of Geneva. That committee was later to become the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1975

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Footnotes

1

Paper delivered at the Sixth International Advanced Course for Young Medical Officers, Libourne, September 1972, reproduced in the Revue Internationale des services de santé des armées de terre, de mer et de l'air (Liège, 1972, No. 11).

References

1 And also the Red Crescent and Red Lion and Sun Societies.