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Learning from the wounded : the Civil War and the rise of American medical science / Shauna Devine.

By: Devine, Shauna [author.].
©2014Edition: First edition.Description: x, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.ISBN: 1469611554 (cloth : alk. paper); 9781469611556 (cloth : alk. paper).Other title: Civil War and the rise of American medical science.Subject(s): Medical care -- United States -- History | History of Medicine -- United States | American Civil War -- United States | History, 19th Century -- United StatesGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 610.973
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-360) and index.

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.

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