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Author:
Humphreys, Margaret, 1955-
Title:
Marrow of tragedy : the health crisis of the American Civil War / Margaret Humphreys.
Publisher:
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
xiv, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
United States--Medical care.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care.
United States--Casualties.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Casualties.
Medicine, Military--United States--History--19th century.
Public health--United States--History--19th century.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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:
1421409992 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781421409993 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)820665582
LCCN:
2012044604
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

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