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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785509703321

Autore

Hasegawa Guy R

Titolo

Mending broken soldiers [[electronic resource] ] : the Union and Confederate programs to supply artificial limbs / / Guy R. Hasegawa ; with a foreword by James M. Schmidt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-57827-1

9786613890726

0-8093-3131-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 p.)

Disciplina

973.7/75

Soggetti

Artificial limbs - United States - History - 19th century

Artificial limbs - Confederate States of America - History

Amputees - Services for - United States - History - 19th century

Amputees - Services for - Confederate States of America - History

Soldiers - Medical care - United States - History - 19th century

Soldiers - Medical care - Confederate States of America - History

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Medical care

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Technology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Melancholy Harvest -- The Best Substitutes Known to Art -- Noble Charity -- Good and Serviceable Limbs -- An Act of Esteem and Gratitude -- Manifold Difficulties -- Magnificent Benefaction -- Appendix A: Makers and Inventors Associated with the Union and Confederate Artificial-Limbs Programs -- Appendix B: Artificial Limbs and Resection Apparatus Supplied to U.S. Soldiers and Sailors by May 10, 1866.

Sommario/riassunto

The four years of the Civil War saw bloodshed on a scale unprecedented in the history of the United States. Thousands of soldiers and sailors from both sides who survived the horrors of the war faced hardship for the rest of their lives as amputees. Now Guy R. Hasegawa presents the first volume to explore the wartime provisions



made for amputees in need of artificial limbs-programs that, while they revealed stark differences between the resources and capabilities of the North and the South, were the forebears of modern government efforts to assist in the rehabilitation of wounded service memb