Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War 9781421409993, 1421409992, 1421410001

The Civil War was the greatest health disaster the United States has ever experienced, killing more than a million Ameri

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Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War
 9781421409993, 1421409992, 1421410001

Table of contents :
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Understanding Civil War Medicine2. Women, War, and Medicine3. Infectious Disease in the Civil War4. Connecting Home to Hospital and Camp5. The Sanitary Commission and Its Critics6. The Union's General Hospital7. Medicine for a New Nation8. Confederate Medicine9. Mitigating the Horrors of War10. A Public Health Legacy11. Medicine in Postwar AmericaAfterwordNotesIndex

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