{"product_id":"gangrene-and-glory-medical-care-during-the-american-civil-war-9780252070105","title":"Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care During the American Civil War","description":"This unusual history of the Civil War takes a close look at the battlefield doctors in whose hands rested the lives of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers and at the makeshift medicine they were forced to employ. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A medical doctor and a credentialed historian, Frank R. Freemon combines poignant, sometimes horrifying anecdotes of amputation, infection, and death with a clearheaded discussion of the state of medical knowledge, the effect of the military bureaucracy on medical supplies, and the members of the medical community who risked their lives, their health, and even their careers to provide appropriate care to the wounded. Freemon examines the impact on major campaigns--Manassas, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Shiloh, Atlanta--of ignorance, understaffing, inexperience, overcrowded hospitals, insufficient access to ambulances, and inadequate supplies of essentials such as quinine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Presenting the medical side of the war from a variety of perspectives--the Union, the Confederacy, doctors, nurses, soldiers, and their families--\u003ci\u003eGangrene and Glory\u003c\/i\u003e achieves a peculiar immediacy by restricting its scope to the knowledge and perceptions available to its nineteenth-century subjects. Now available for the first time in paperback, this important volume takes a hard, close look at a neglected and crucial aspect of this bloody conflict. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/26\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252070105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.02h x 8.55w x 0.69d","brand":"Frank R. Freemon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43049407086773,"sku":"9780252070105","price":22.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_2ea0c7ec-44a6-46d7-be06-21be2c718e5a.jpg?v=1689689262","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/gangrene-and-glory-medical-care-during-the-american-civil-war-9780252070105","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}