Rehabilitating bodies : health, history, and the American Civil War /
The American Civil War is one of the most documented, romanticized, and perennially reenacted events in American history. In Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War, Lisa A. Long charts how its extreme carnage dictated the Civil War's development into a lasting trope...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2004.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Year That Trembled and Reel'd beneath Me
- 1 Doctors' Bodies: Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and Patient Malingering
- 2 Dead Bodies: Mourning Fictions and the Corporeity of Heaven
- 3 Sanitized Bodies: The United States Sanitary Commission and Soul Sickness
- 4 Experimental Bodies: African American Writers and the Rehabilitation of War Work
- 5 Soldiers' Bodies: Historical Fictions and the Sickness of Battle
- 6 Nursing Bodies: Civil War Women and Postbellum Regeneration
- 7 Historical Bodies: African American Scholars and the Discipline of History
- Epilogue: Conjuring Civil War Bodies
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments.