Shauna Devine, Guy R. Hasegawa, James M. Edmonson, Barbra Mann Wall, Margaret Humphreys, Randall M. Miller

Civil War Medicine (eBook, ePUB)

A Surgeon's Diary
Redaktion: Hicks, Robert D.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"An incredible resource for anyone interested in the human experience of the Civil War―as recorded by a medical professional tasked with saving lives."-David Price, Executive Director of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine In this never before published diary, twenty-nine-year-old surgeon James Fulton transports readers into the harsh and deadly conditions of the Civil War as he struggles to save the lives of the patients under his care. Fulton joined a Union army volunteer regiment in 1862, only a year into the Civil War, and immediately began chronicling his experiences in a pocket diary. Despite his capture by the Confederate Army at Gettysburg and the confiscation of his medical tools, Fulton was able to keep his diary with him at all times. He provides a detailed account of the next two years, including his experiences treating the wounded and diseased during some of the most critical campaigns of the war, and his relationships with soldiers, their commanders, civilians, other health-care workers, and the opposing Confederate army. The diary also includes his notes on recipes for medical ailments from sore throats to syphilis. In addition to Fulton's diary, editor Robert D. Hicks and experts in Civil War medicine provide context and additional information on the practice and development of medicine during the Civil War, including the technology and methods available at the time; the organization of military medicine; doctor-patient interactions; and the role of women as caregivers and relief workers. Civil War Medicine: A Surgeon's Diary provides a compelling new account of the lives of soldiers during the Civil War and a doctor's experience of one of the worst health crises ever faced by the United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253040107
• Artikelnr.: 58753828

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