Rehabilitating Bodies
Subtitle: Health, History, and the American Civil War
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780812237481
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Medicine: General Issues; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; History - U.S.; Health aspects; Ontology in literature; History: American; USA; American - General; Health Care Issues; United States - Civil War; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Civil War, 1861-1865; Historiography; History; Knowledge, Theory of; Ontology; United States
First sentence: In 1863, Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell wrote to his sister of his increasing passion for the research he was pursuing in between his more mundane duties in a Civil War hospital.