CSPAN3 Influence Of Civil War Medicine December 19, 2015
Point, shauna devines learning from the wounded the civil war and the rise of american medical science, published by u. N. C. Press. Dr. Devine has produced a book that challenges many of not most of our assumptions about the state of medicine in the civil war. Learning from the wounded draws on close readings of reports issued by hundreds of army and Union Physicians and who treated the wounded and dissected the dead. These doctors rose to the challenges before them and made the most of this unprecedented opportunity to study and report not only on new methods of treat bement but also new fin...