Marrow of Tragedy
Subtitle: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781421409993
Subjects: Public health, united states; Public health, history; Medicine, military, history; United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, medical care
Description: "In telling the stories of soldiers, families, physicians, nurses, and administrators, [the author] concludes that medical science was not as limited at the beginning of the war as has been portrayed. Medicine and public health clearly advanced during the war-- and continued to do so after military hostilities ceased"--Dust jacket.