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This social and cultural history of Civil War medicine and science sheds important light on the question of why and how anti-Black racism survived the destructi
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In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes,
Healing a Divided Nation
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Authors: Carole Adrienne
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A profound and insightful investigation into how the American Civil War transformed modern medicine. At the start of the Civil War, the medical field in America
This Republic of Suffering
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil
Learning from the Wounded
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Nearly two-thirds of the Civil War's approximately 750,000 fatalities were caused by disease--a staggering fact for which the American medical profession was pr