TY - BOOK AU - Humphreys,Margaret TI - Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War SN - 9781421410005 AV - E621 .H86 2013 U1 - 973.7/75 PY - 2013/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Medicine, Military-United States-History-19th century KW - Public health-United States-History-19th century KW - United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Medical care KW - United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Casualties KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Call and Response -- 1 Understanding Civil War Medicine -- 2 Women, War, and Medicine -- 3 Infectious Disease in the Civil War -- 4 Connecting Home to Hospital and Camp: The Work of the USSC -- 5 The Sanitary Commission and Its Critics -- 6 The Union's General Hospital -- 7 Medicine for a New Nation -- 8 Confederate Medicine: Disease, Wounds, and Shortages -- 9 Mitigating the Horrors of War -- 10 A Public Health Legacy -- 11 Medicine in Postwar America -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z N2 - Medicine and public health clearly advanced during the war--and continued to do so after military hostilities ceased UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3318709 ER -