Robert Hicks

Civil War Medicine

A Surgeon's Diary

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

1. This book provides a fresh look at soldiers experiences' by capturing the first-person account of a military surgeon. 2. The diary has never been published before and allows readers to experience battles as physicians saw them, exploring the relationship between the doctors and soldiers and how doctors managed soldiers' health, disease, injuries, and recovery. 3. The book also includes accessible chapters by leading experts in Civil War medicine, who put Fulton's experiences in context with the larger development of medicine during the war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780253040077
• ISBN-10: 0253040078
• Artikelnr.: 54471608

Autorenporträt

Robert D. Hicks is Director of the Mütter Museum and Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, where he holds the William Maul Measey Chair for the History of Medicine. He is the author of Voyage to Jamestown: Practical Navigation in the Age of Discovery.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgement
Introduction: Becoming a Doctor
Part I
Chapter 1: To Virginia, Measles and Typhoid (Diary, August 18, 1862 to
February 19, 1863)
Chapter 2: Chancellorsville and "a Spiteful Morose Scamp" (Diary, February
22, 1863 to June 28, 1863)
Chapter 3: Searching for Flour at Gettysburg (Diary, June 29, 1863 to July
4, 1863)
Chapter 4: Return to Virginia and Christmas with Secesh (Diary, July 5,
1863 to December 25, 1863)
Chapter 5: "To bring man in communion with his God" (Diary, December 26,
1863 to January 29, 1864)
Chapter 6: Dr. Fulton after 1864
Chapter 7: Commentary
Part II
Chapter 8: "Examined at the University of Pennsylvania": Dr. Fulton, his
Professional Milieu, and Military Medicine 1862-64, by Shauna Devine
Chapter 9: "We Got Up and Began to Pack our Medicines": What Dr. Fulton
Prescribed, by Guy R. Hasegawa
Chapter 10: "We Soon Concluded to Operate": Dr. Fulton's Tools and Methods,
by James M. Edmonson
Chapter 11: "The Christian Commission also Brought in a Wagon Today": Dr.
Fulton, Voluntary Relief Associations, and Women in Hospitals, by Barbra
Mann Wall
Chapter 12: "We Made Up Soup as Fast as Possible": Nutrition and the 19th
Century Male Body, by Margaret Humphreys
Chapter 13: "Such is the Character of Many Men": Dr. Fulton's Politics and
the Moral and Political Consciousness of Soldiers, by Randall M. Miller
Appendices
Bibliography
Contributors
Index