Mending broken soldiers
Subtitle: the Union and Confederate programs to supply artificial limbs
By: Guy R. Hasegawa ; with a foreword by James M. Schmidt
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780809331307; 9780809331314
Subjects: Services for; Medical care; Soldiers; Amputees; Artificial limbs; Technology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Melancholy Harvest; title: The Best Substitutes Known to Art; title: Noble Charity; title: Good and Serviceable Limbs; title: An Act of Esteem and Gratitude; title: Manifold Difficulties; title: Magnificent Benefaction; title: Appendix A: Makers and Inventors Associated with the Union and Confederate Artificial-Limbs Programs; title: Appendix B: Artificial Limbs and Resection Apparatus Supplied to U.S. Soldiers and Sailors by May 10, 1866.