Section 1. The Nature and Impacts of 21st Century Healthcare Emergencies: 1. Emergencies, incidents, disasters, disease outbreaks and mental health: the scope of this book Professor Richard Williams; 2. How the world views trauma and trauma care Professor Julian Redhead; 3. How the world views the mental health implications of traumatic events, major incidents and serious contagious diseases Professor John Lord Alderdice; 4. Two personal perspectives on trauma and recovery Toni Wallace and Tom Renninson; 5. How emergencies, incidents, disasters and disease outbreaks affect people and healthcare practitioners Dr John Stancombe, Dr Suzy Stokes, Dr Andy Wood and Professor Richard Williams; 6. The impact of emergencies, terrorism and disease on children and their families Professor Prathiba Chitsabesan, Dr Brian Jacobs and Dr Raphael Kelvin; 7. The impacts of urbanising the world's population on emergencies, incidents, disasters and disease outbreaks Dr Tim Healing; 8. Myths about disasters Professor David E. Alexander; 9. Primary and secondary stressors: the ways in which traumatic events are stressful Professor Richard Williams, Dr Evangelos Ntontis, Professor John Drury, Dr Khalifah Alfadhli and Professor Richard Amlot; 10. The differing challenges posed by big bang, rising tide and longer-term incidents affecting local and dispersed populations Professor Chris Brewin, Dr Kate Allsopp, Dr Talya Greene and Professor Richard Williams; 11. Mental health impacts of multiple disaster exposures Professor Claire Leppold and Dr Lennart Reifels; 12. The common ground in the mental health impacts of emergencies, incidents, disasters, disease outbreaks and conflict and a framework for responding to people's needs Professor Richard Williams, Dr John Stancombe and Professor James Ryan; Section 2. Clinical Aspects of Traumatic Injuries, Epidemics and Pandemics: 13. Advances in pre-hospital care Professor Sir Keith Porter and Mr Emir Battaloglu; 14. The changing face of clinical medicine in major trauma: lessons from civilian practice and military deployments Miss J. J. Lee and Professor Sir Keith Porter; 15. The changing face of traumatic injury: increasing experiences of penetrating gun and knife injuries and their treatment Mr Tom Konig; 16. Lessons from history and the epidemiology of severe epidemics and pandemics: plague, cholera, influenza, viral haemorrhagic fevers, and coronaviruses Dr Tim Healing; 17. The health aspects of epidemics and pandemics Group Captain Andy Green and Dr Sharon Irvine; 18. Challenges in managing epidemics and pandemics illustrated by Ebola and covid-19: a case study perspective Dr Claire Bayntun; Section 3. The Role of the Public in Emergencies: Survivors, Bystanders and 'Volunteers': 19. The role of the public understanding of group processes in emergencies, incidents, disasters and disease outbreaks Professor John Drury; 20. Social identity and traumatic stress in the context of an earthquake and a pandemic: understanding the roles of shared and isolating social experiences Professor Orla Muldoon; 21. Mobilisation and deterioration of social support following disasters resulting from natural and human-induced hazards Professor Krzysztof Kaniasty and Beata Urbanska; 22. Collective responses to terrorist attacks Dr Chris Cocking and Dr Anne Templeton; 23. Collective psychosocial resilience as a group process following flooding: how it arises and how groups can sustain it Dr Evangelos Ntontis and Dr Meng Zhang; 24. Facilitating the public response to covid-19: mutual aid and group processes Professor John Drury, Dr Evangelos Ntontis, Dr Maria Fernandes-Jesus and Guanlan Mao; 25. The social psychology of mass casualty decontamination in CBRN incidents Dr Holly Carter, Dr Charles Symons, Dr Dale Weston and Professor Richard Amlot; 26. Factors that determine wider solidarity responses after a major incide
