Descript |
xiv, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Content |
text |
Media |
unmediated |
Carrier |
volume |
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. |
ISBN |
9781421409993 (hbk.) |
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1421409992 (hbk.) |
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