Marrow of tragedy
Humphreys, Margaret, 1955-
Marrow of tragedy the health crisis of the American Civil War / [electronic resource] : Margaret Humphreys. - Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (xiv, 385 pages :) illustrations ;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781421410005 1421410001
Public health--History--United States--19th century.
Medicine, Military--History--United States--19th century.
United States--History--Casualties.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Medical care.--Civil War, 1861-1865
Electronic books.
E621 / .H86 2013
973.7/75
Marrow of tragedy the health crisis of the American Civil War / [electronic resource] : Margaret Humphreys. - Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (xiv, 385 pages :) illustrations ;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781421410005 1421410001
Public health--History--United States--19th century.
Medicine, Military--History--United States--19th century.
United States--History--Casualties.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Medical care.--Civil War, 1861-1865
Electronic books.
E621 / .H86 2013
973.7/75