Marrow of tragedy [electronic resource] : the health crisis of the American Civil War / Margaret Humphreys.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.Description: xiv, 385 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 973.7/75 23
LOC classification:
  • E621 .H86 2013eb
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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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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