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

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Main Author: Devine, Shauna (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Series:Civil War America (Series)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Medical education and the American Civil War
  • 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