Learning from the wounded : the Civil War and the rise of American medical science / Shauna Devine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Devine, Shauna, author.

Series:

Civil War America (Series)

Civil War America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care--United States--History.

Medical care.

History.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

United States.

United States--Armed Forces--Medical care.

Armed Forces.

History of Medicine.

American Civil War.

History, 19th Century.

Medical Subjects:

History of Medicine.

United States.

American Civil War.

History, 19th Century.

Physical Description:

x, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2014]

Contents:

Circular no. 2 and the Army Medical Museum

The limits of morbid anatomy and the development of new medical techniques

Civil War bodies and the development of experimental method : erysipelas and hospital gangrene during the American Civil War, 1861-1865

Medical specialization and specialized research

Whose bodies? : military bodies and control during the American Civil War

Cholera and the Civil War medical model in the postwar period

Postwar reflections.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469611556

1469611554

OCLC:

857664362