Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science

by Shauna Devine

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146963337X
• ISBN13: 9781469633374
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"