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Author:   Margaret Humphreys (Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine, Duke University)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9781421409993

ISBN 10:   1421409992
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   27 October 2013
Recommended Age:   From 17
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Understanding Civil War Medicine 2. Women, War, and Medicine 3. Infectious Disease in the Civil War 4. Connecting Home to Hospital and Camp 5. The Sanitary Commission and Its Critics 6. The Union's General Hospital 7. Medicine for a New Nation 8. Confederate Medicine 9. Mitigating the Horrors of War 10. A Public Health Legacy 11. Medicine in Postwar America Afterword Notes Index

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Marrow of Tragedy by Duke University's Margaret Humphreys, is an immensely readable synthesis of what she terms the greatest health disaster that this country has ever experienced. -- John David Smith The News & Observer

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Margaret Humphreys is the Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine, a professor of history, and a professor of medicine at Duke University. She is the author of Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War and Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States, also published by Johns Hopkins.

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