Marrow of Tragedy : The Health Crisis of the American Civil War /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Humphreys, Margaret, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Public health.
Medicine, Military.
Medical care.
Battle casualties.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Sante publique > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Public health > United States > History > 19th century.
Medicine, Military > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Casualties.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Medical care.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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