Humphreys, Margaret,  1955- <br/><br/>
Marrow of tragedy  the health crisis of the American Civil War / 
Margaret Humphreys. 
 - Baltimore :  The Johns Hopkins University Press,  (c)2013. 
 - 1 online resource (pages cm.) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781421410005 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medicine, Military--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Public health--History--United States--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E621  / .M377 2013