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A medical doctor and a credentialed historian, Frank R. Freemon combines poignant, sometimes horrifying anecdotes of amputation, infection, and death with a clearheaded discussion of the state of medical knowledge, the effect of the military bureaucracy on medical supplies, and the members of the medical community who risked their lives, their health, and even their careers to provide appropriate care to the wounded. Freemon examines the impact on major campaigns--Manassas, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Shiloh, Atlanta--of ignorance, understaffing, inexperience, overcrowded hospitals, insufficient access to ambulances, and inadequate supplies of essentials such as quinine.
Presenting the medical side of the war from a variety of perspectives--the Union, the Confederacy, doctors, nurses, soldiers, and their families--Gangrene and Glory achieves a peculiar immediacy by restricting its scope to the knowledge and perceptions available to its nineteenth-century subjects. Now available for the first time in paperback, this important volume takes a hard, close look at a neglected and crucial aspect of this bloody conflict.
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A medical doctor and a credentialed historian, Frank R. Freemon combines poignant, sometimes horrifying anecdotes of amputation, infection, and death with a clearheaded discussion of the state of medical knowledge, the effect of the military bureaucracy on medical supplies, and the members of the medical community who risked their lives, their health, and even their careers to provide appropriate care to the wounded. Freemon examines the impact on major campaigns--Manassas, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Shiloh, Atlanta--of ignorance, understaffing, inexperience, overcrowded hospitals, insufficient access to ambulances, and inadequate supplies of essentials such as quinine.
Presenting the medical side of the war from a variety of perspectives--the Union, the Confederacy, doctors, nurses, soldiers, and their families--Gangrene and Glory achieves a peculiar immediacy by restricting its scope to the knowledge and perceptions available to its nineteenth-century subjects. Now available for the first time in paperback, this important volume takes a hard, close look at a neglected and crucial aspect of this bloody conflict.
Frank R. Freemon,Gangrene and Glory Medical Care during the American Civil War,University of Illinois Press,0252070100,Internal Medicine,Military - Other,USA,Medicine, Military - United States - History - 19th century,Medicine, Military;United States;History;19th century.,United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Medical care,United States;History;Civil War, 1861-1865;Medical care.,19th century,American history c 1800 to c 1900,Civil War Period (1850-1877),Civil War, 1861-1865,HISTORY,HISTORY / Military / Wars Conflicts (Other),HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877),History - Military / War,History of the Americas,History/American,History American,MEDICAL / Internal Medicine,MILITARY HISTORY - U.S. CIVIL,MILITARY MEDICINE,Medical care,Medical/History,Medical/Military Medicine,Medicine,Medicine, Military,Military History - U.S. Civil War,Non-Fiction,Scholarly/Undergraduate,UNIVERSITY PRESS,USA,United States,United States - Civil War,United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Medical care,United States;History;Civil War, 1861-1865;Medical care.,HISTORY / Military / Wars Conflicts (Other),HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877),History,MEDICAL / Internal Medicine,Medical/History,Medical/Military Medicine,United States - Civil War,History - Military / War,19th century,Civil War, 1861-1865,Medical care,Medicine, Military,United States,Military History - U.S. Civil War,Military Medicine,History American,American history c 1800 to c 1900,History of the Americas,Medicine
Gangrene and Glory Medical Care during the American Civil War [Frank R. Freemon] on . DIVThis unusual history of the Civil War takes a close look at the battlefield doctors in whose hands rested the lives of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers and at the makeshift medicine they were forced to employ.BR / BR / A medical doctor and a credentialed historian
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