About the book
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 war, undertaking methods of study and experimentation that would have a lasting influence on the scientific practice of medicine.
Though the war’s human toll was tragic, conducting postmortems on the dead and caring for the wounded gave physicians ample opportunity to study and develop new methods of treatment and analysis, from dissection and microscopy to new research into infectious disease processes. Examining the work of doctors who served in the Union Medical Department, Devine sheds new light on how their innovations in the midst of crisis transformed northern medical education and gave rise to the healing power of modern health science.
Editions of Learning from the Wounded
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781469611556
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781469633374
- EBook
- ISBN 9781469611563
- EBook
- ISBN 9781469615486
- EBook
- ISBN 9798890844637
- PDF
- ISBN 9798890844620
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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 war, undertaking methods of study and experimentation that would have a lasting influence on the scientific practice of medicine.
Though the war’s human toll was tragic, conducting postmortems on the dead and caring for the wounded gave physicians ample opportunity to study and develop new methods of treatment and analysis, from dissection and microscopy to new research into infectious disease processes. Examining the work of doctors who served in the Union Medical Department, Devine sheds new light on how their innovations in the midst of crisis transformed northern medical education and gave rise to the healing power of modern health science.
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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 war, undertaking methods of study and experimentation that would have a lasting influence on the scientific practice of medicine.
Though the war’s human toll was tragic, conducting postmortems on the dead and caring for the wounded gave physicians ample opportunity to study and develop new methods of treatment and analysis, from dissection and microscopy to new research into infectious disease processes. Examining the work of doctors who served in the Union Medical Department, Devine sheds new light on how their innovations in the midst of crisis transformed northern medical education and gave rise to the healing power of modern health science.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Learning from the Wounded?
History and Archaeology > History > History of the Americas
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How long is Learning from the Wounded and how many pages does it have?
Learning from the Wounded has 384 page(s)
Is Learning from the Wounded part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series Civil War America
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Learning from the Wounded?
Shauna Devine
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Learning from the Wounded is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781469611556) and paperback(ISBN 9781469633374) and ebook(ISBN 9781469611563) and ebook(ISBN 9781469615486) and ebook(ISBN 9798890844637) and pdf(ISBN 9798890844620)
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