Marrow of tragedy : the health crisis of the American Civil War / / Margaret Humphreys
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| Autore: |
Humphreys Margaret <1955->
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| Titolo: |
Marrow of tragedy : the health crisis of the American Civil War / / Margaret Humphreys
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (400 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973.7/75 |
| Soggetto topico: | Medicine, Military - United States - History - 19th century |
| Public health - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Medical care |
| United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Casualties | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Medicine and public health clearly advanced during the war--and continued to do so after military hostilities ceased. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Marrow of tragedy |
| ISBN: | 1-4214-1000-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812242803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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