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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):
- United States--History.
- United States.
- United States--Civil War.
- United States--Medicine--History.
- Medical care--United States--History.
- Medical care.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science
- Contents:
- Introduction: Medical education and the American Civil War
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-360) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908446-3-7
- 1-4696-1548-7
- OCLC:
- 870309441
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