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):

Medicine--United States--History.

Medicine.

United States.

History.

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

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages).

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Chapter 1 Circular No. 2 and the Army Medical Museum 13

Chapter 2 The Limits of Morbid Anatomy and the Development of New Medical Techniques 53

Chapter 3 Civil War Bodies and the Development of Experimental Method Erysipelas and Hospital Gangrene during the American Civil War, 1861-1865 94

Chapter 4 Medical Specialization and Specialized Research 132

Chapter 5 Whose Bodies? Military Bodies and Control during the American Civil War 173

Chapter 6 Cholera and the Civil War Medical Model in the Postwar Period 215

Chapter 7 Postwar Reflections 249.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

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

ISBN:

9781469615486

OCLC:

874150274

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.