Learning from the wounded : the Civil War and the rise of American medical science
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- ISBN: 9781469611556
- ISBN: 1469611554
- ISBN: 9781469611563
- ISBN: 1469611562
- ISBN: 1469615487
- ISBN: 9781469615486
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Physical Description:
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x, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
- Copyright: ©2014
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-360) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | Medical care United States History History of Medicine American Civil War History, 19th Century United States |