Book ID: CBB001213254

Surgeon in Blue: Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care (2013)

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McGaugh, Scott (Author)


Arcade Publishing


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xxi + 342 pp.; ill.
Language: English

Recounts the life of the Civil War surgeon and how he made battlefield survival possible by creating the first organized ambulance corps and a more effective field hospital system.

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Authors & Contributors
Coddington, Ronald S.
Brian Craig Miller
Sarah Handley-Cousins
Privette, Lindsay Rae
Rable, George C.
Larry M. Logue
Journals
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Vesalius
The Journal of the Civil War Era
History of Psychiatry
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Publishers
Johns Hopkins University Press
The University of Georgia Press
University of Virginia Press
University of North Carolina Press
University of Georgia Press
Stackpole Books
Concepts
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
Medicine
Physicians; doctors
Surgery
Nurses and nursing
Disabilities; disability; accessibility
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
Southern states (U.S.)
Virginia (U.S.)
Pennsylvania (U.S.)
North Carolina (U.S.)
Great Britain
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