Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science
(Part of the Civil War America Series and Civil War America Series)
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Nearly two-thirds of the Civil War's approximately 750,000 fatalities were caused by disease--a staggering fact for which the American medical profession was profoundly unprepared. In the years before the war, training for physicians in the United States was mostly unregulated, and medical schools' access to cadavers for teaching purposes was highly restricted. Shauna Devine argues that in spite of these limitations, Union army physicians rose to...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:146963337X
ISBN13:9781469633374
Release Date:February 2017
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:384 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"
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