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Marrow of tragedy : the health crisis of the American Civil War / Margaret Humphreys.
University Archives UPP9502 H927 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Humphreys, Margaret, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health.
- History.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care.
- United States.
- Medical care.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Casualties.
- Medicine, Military--United States--History--19th century.
- Medicine, Military.
- Public health--United States--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- Understanding Civil War medicine
- Women, war, and medicine
- Infectious disease in the civil war
- Connecting home to hospital and camp : the work of the USSC
- The Sanitary Commission and its critics
- The Union's general hospital
- Medicine for a new nation
- Confederate medicine : disease, wounds, and shortages
- Mitigating the horrors of war
- A public health legacy
- Medicine in postwar America.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781421409993
- 1421409992
- OCLC:
- 820665582
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