Healing a Divided Nation
How the American Civil War Revolutionized Western Medicine
An insightful investigation into how the American Civil War transformed medicine, from sanitation to the foundations of the Red Cross.At the start of the Civil War, the medical field in America was rudimentary, unsanitary, and woefully underprepared to address what would become the bloodiest conflict on U.S. soil. However, in this historic moment of pivotal social and political change, medicine was also fast evolving to meet the needs of the time. Unprecedented strides were made in the science of medicine, and as women and African Americans were admitted into the field for the first time. The Civil War marked a revolution in healthcare as a…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-63936-186-1
- EAN: 9781639361861
- Produktnummer: 37767658
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 364 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 8 pages of B&W photographs
Über den Autor
Carole Adrienne received her B.F.A. from Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia. She has organized an archive for Old St. Joseph's National Shrine, twice chaired Archives Week in Philadelphia, and has served on advisory panels for the Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center, The Mutter Museum's Civil War Medicine exhibit and its Spit Spreads Death: The 1918 Flu Epidemic exhibit. She is working on a documentary film series on Civil War medicine and lives in Philadelphia, PA. This is her first book.
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