Marrow of tragedy : the health crisis of the American Civil War / Margaret Humphreys.

  • Humphreys, Margaret, 1955-
Date:
2013
  • Books

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Description

"In telling the stories of soldiers, families, physicians, nurses, and administrators, [the author] concludes that medical science was not as limited at the beginning of the war as has been portrayed. Medicine and public health clearly advanced during the war-- and continued to do so after military hostilities ceased"--Dust jacket.

Publication/Creation

Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

Physical description

xiv, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    LMJO.6.AA8
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781421409993
  • 1421409992