[PDF.33du] Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science (Civil War America)

Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science (Civil War America)

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 | #434019 in Books |  2014-03-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x6.50 x1.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 384 pages

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| A new perspective|By Brian H. Clague|Focusing on the statistics of the medicine delivered during the civil war, one is often dismayed at the lack thereof. After all, this was pre-modern medicine, not much changed from medevil times. However, Ms. Devine has taken a newer, fresher look at the backstory of physician activity taking place while the battles raged , at the formation| |A must-read for anyone interested in the American Civil War and the birth of modern medicine in the United States.--Journal of American Culture||

[Devine] makes a convincing case that at least one good thing came from the horror of the Civil

Nearly two-thirds of the Civil War's approximately 750,000 fatalities were caused by disease--a staggering fact for which the American medical profession was profoundly unprepared. In the years before the war, training for physicians in the United States was mostly unregulated, and medical schools' access to cadavers for teaching purposes was highly restricted. Shauna Devine argues that in spite of these limitations, Union army physicians rose to the challenges of the wa...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science (Civil War America)   |  Shauna Devine. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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