Shauna Devine: 1 book
Learning from the Wounded
The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
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 the war, training for physicians in the United States was mostly unregulated, and medical schools'...
