Guy R Hasegawa

Gebundenes Buch

Mending Broken Soldiers

The Union and Confederate Programs to Supply Artificial Limbs

Beschreibung

Presents the first volume to explore the provisions made during the US Civil War for amputees in need of artificial limbs - programmes that, while they revealed stark differences between the resources and capabilities of the North and the South, were the forebears of modern government efforts to assist in the rehabilitation of wounded service members.

Autor

Guy R. Hasegawa is a pharmacist and senior editor of the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. He is a coeditor of Years of Change and Suffering: Modern Perspectives on Civil War Medicine and has written many articles on the history of pharmacy and on Civil War medicine. He serves on the board of directors of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine and is a director emeritus of the Society of Civil War Surgeons.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 159mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9780809331307
• ISBN-10: 0809331306
• Artikelnr.: 34444219