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

Devine, Shauna,

Learning from the wounded : the Civil War and the rise of American medical science / Shauna Devine. - First edition. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource : illustrations - Civil War America .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Circular numbers 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.

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



9781469615486 9781469611563


Medical care--History.--United States
Medicine--History.
History of Medicine
History, 19th Century
American Civil War


Electronic Books.

R151 / .L437 2014