The Human Bones of the Hemenway Collection in the United States Army Medical Museum at Washington
The Human Bones of the Hemenway Collection in the United States Army Medical Museum at Washington

Author: J L Wortman

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781022176980

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A comprehensive study of the Hemenway Collection of human skeletal remains, which is housed at the United States Army Medical Museum in Washington, D.C. The book describes the collection's history, the methods used to study the bones, and the insights that can be gained from studying human remains. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Learning from the Wounded
Learning from the Wounded

Author: Shauna Devine

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1469611554

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

Doctors In Gray: The Confederate Medical Service
Doctors In Gray: The Confederate Medical Service

Author: Horace Herndon Cunningham

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2015-11-06

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 1786251213

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“H. H. Cunningham’s Doctors in Gray, first published more than thirty years ago, remains the definitive work on the medical history of the Confederate army. Drawing on a prodigious array of sources, Cunningham paints as complete a picture as possible of the daunting task facing those charged with caring for the war’s wounded and sick. Of the estimated 600,000 Confederate troops, Cunningham claims the 200,000 died either from battle wounds of from illness—the majority, surprisingly, from illness. Despite these grim statistics, Confederate medical personnel frequently performed heroically under the most primitive of circumstances and made imaginative use of limited resources. Cunningham provides detailed information on the administration of the Confederate Medical Department, the establishment and organization of Confederate hospitals, the experiences of medical officers in the field, the manufacture and procurement of supplies, the causes and treatment of diseases, and the beginning of modern surgical practices.” - Print ed.

A Contemporary History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps
A Contemporary History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps

Author: Mary T. Sarnecky

Publisher: Department of the Army

Published: 2010-04-27

Total Pages: 618

ISBN-13:

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This book focuses on an organization, the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, which the author has been privileged to be affiliated with – in one way or another – for the greatest part of her adult life. As an active duty officer, the author had first-hand knowledge about the Army Nurse Corps inner workings and spent the last years of her Army career (from 1992) researching and writing the Corps history. One of her goals in researching and writing this history was to intrigue and provide a sense of gratification for the reader. After the conclusion of the Vietnam War, several wide-ranging and significant changes exerted myriad effects on the Army Nurse Corps. The most influential of these phenomena included the dismantling of the Selective Service System, the reorganization of the Army, the launch of the Health Services Command (HSC), the opening of the Academy of Health Sciences, the transformation of the Office of the Army Surgeon General, the inauguration of improvements in the Army Reserve and National Guard, and the evolution in the roles and status of women.

Matchless Organization
Matchless Organization

Author: Guy R. Hasegawa

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 2021-06-23

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0809338297

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"'Matchless Organization' describes the operations of the Confederate Army's Medical Department as managed by its successive surgeons general, especially Samuel Preston Moore"--

War and Medicine
War and Medicine

Author: Wellcome Trust

Publisher: Black Dog Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13:

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"This illustrated book is published to coincide with the exhibition War and Medicine, organised by Wellcome Collection, London, in collaboration with the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden. It explores the complex and fascinating relationship between war and medicine, and the ways in which they have influenced each other throughout the modern period. As civilisations develop more sophisticated and destructive technologies with which to wage war, medicine evolves to meet the needs of resulting casualties. This in turn informs advances in civilian medicine and social policy. War and Medicine charts this complex process and the ethical, political and personal issues raised." "From the sometimes counterintuitive and ethically challenging principles of triage, to the recent arguments over whether and how post-traumatic stress can be clinically diagnosed, it reveals how humankind's desire to repair and heal has tried, with varying degrees of success, to keep pace with its capacity to maim and kill. The result is an engrossing history of war and medicine in the modern era."--BOOK JACKET.