Butchers no more : Reevaluating Civil War medicine and its impact on the development of professional medicine in the United States / by Kristin Wright.

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Main Author: Wright, Kristin (Author)
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Failure or success? : medicine during the Civil War
  • Civil War medicine then and now : a critical assessment of the retrospective incrimination
  • The untested meets the unimaginable : early medical confusion and organizational changes
  • Chaos begets innovation : further organizational development
  • Combatting the real enemy : prevention and treatment of infection and disease
  • From butchers to surgeons : advances in surgical practices and techniques
  • Civil War medicine redeemed : scalpels tarnished no more
  • Conclusion.