DrEmily Mayhew

Dr Mayhew is a military medical historian specialising in the study of severe casualty, its infliction, treatment and long-term outcomes in 20th and 21st century warfare. She is historian in residence in the Department of Bioengineering, working primarily with the researchers and staff of the Centre for Injury Studies.

Emily is part of the team that put together the Paediatric Blast Injury Field Manual which can be downloaded from here in English, Arabic, Dari, Pashtun, Francophone/French, Ukranian, Türkçe, Russian, Chinese as PDFs:

http://www.imperial.ac.uk/blast-injury/research/networks/the-paediatric-blast-injury-partnership/

Emily's latest book, published by riverrun, looks at advances in science, technology and humanitarianism and is available here:

The Four Horsemen: the Fight against War, Pestilence, Famine and Death.

Her book on casualties from the recent war in Afghanistan, and the meaning of their survival for all those suffering from severe trauma is:

A Heavy Reckoning: War, Medicine and Survival in Afghanistan and Beyond.

A Heavy Reckoning is the final part of the Wounded trilogy:

The Guinea Pig Club: Archibald McIndoe and the RAF in World War Two.

Wounded: the Long Journey Home from the Great War