Learning from the Wounded The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science

Author/Creator:

Devine, Shauna, author

Publication/Creation:

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press, 2014

Resource Type:

Book

Edition:

First edition.

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Learning from the Wounded The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science / Shauna Devine

Series Titles:

Civil War America
Civil War America (Series)

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Medical care--United States--History
United States--History
United States--Civil War
United States--Medicine--History

Description/Summary

Table of 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.

Summary:

Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science

Language:

English

Language Note:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

General Note:

Description based upon print version of record.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936950253302486

ISBN:

979-88-908446-3-7
1-4696-1548-7

OCLC Number:

870309441