Learning from the wounded : the Civil War and the rise of American medical science / Shauna Devine.

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

x, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.