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Marrow of tragedy : the health crisis of the American Civil War

Title: Marrow of tragedy : the health crisis of the American Civil War / Margaret Humphreys.
Author: Humphreys, Margaret, 1955-
Publication: Baltimore, Maryland : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

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Description

xiv, 385 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

United States
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Medical care
Public health > United States > History > 19th century
Military Medicine > history > 19th Century
Medicine, Military > United States > History > 19th century
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Casualties

Bibliography (note)

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

9781421409993 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1421409992 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781421410005 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
1421410001 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2012044604
40022574422

OCLC

820665582
ocn820665582
SCSB-8856017

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries