Marrow of tragedy : the health crisis of the American Civil War / Margaret Humphreys.
- Humphreys, Margaret, 1955-
- Date:
- 2013
- Books
About this work
Description
"In telling the stories of soldiers, families, physicians, nurses, and administrators, [the author] concludes that medical science was not as limited at the beginning of the war as has been portrayed. Medicine and public health clearly advanced during the war-- and continued to do so after military hostilities ceased"--Dust jacket.
Publication/Creation
Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Physical description
xiv, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contributors
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Languages
Subjects
- Medicine, MilitaryUnited StatesHistory19th century
- Public healthUnited StatesHistory19th century
- WarHistory
- Health Serviceshistory
- Physicians, Womenhistory
- Communicable Disease Controlhistory
- Hospitalshistory
- Public Healthhistory
- 19th century
- United StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Medical care
- United StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Casualties
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineLMJO.6.AA8Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9781421409993
- 1421409992