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

Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War
ISBN-10
1421409992
ISBN-13
9781421409993
Category
History
Pages
385
Language
English
Published
2013-09
Publisher
JHU Press
Author
Margaret Humphreys

Description

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Call and Response -- 1 Understanding Civil War Medicine -- 2 Women, War, and Medicine -- 3 Infectious Disease in the Civil War -- 4 Connecting Home to Hospital and Camp: The Work of the USSC -- 5 The Sanitary Commission and Its Critics -- 6 The Union's General Hospital -- 7 Medicine for a New Nation -- 8 Confederate Medicine: Disease, Wounds, and Shortages -- 9 Mitigating the Horrors of War -- 10 A Public Health Legacy -- 11 Medicine in Postwar America -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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