Author: Frank Hastings Hamilton
Publisher:
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Category : Surgery, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Surgical Memoirs of the War of the Rebellion: Analysis of four hundred and thirty-nine recorded amputations in the contiguity of the lower extremity
Author: Frank Hastings Hamilton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surgery, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surgery, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Surgical Memoirs of the War of the Rebellion: I. Analysis of four hundred and thirty-nine recorded amputations in the contiguity of the lower extremity. By Stephen Smith, M.D. II. Investigations upon the nature, causes, and treatment of hospital gangrene, as it prevailed in the Confederate armies, 1861-1865. By Joseph Jones, M.D. ... Ed. by Prof. Frank Hastings Hamilton. 1871
Author: United States Sanitary Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Surgery, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surgery, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
Author:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
Book Description
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
Book Description
Pestilence, Insanity, and Trees
Author: John M. Harris Jr.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003821340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (1823–1922), who was appointed to fifty years of public service by three mayors, seven governors, and two U.S. presidents. The book presents the complex life of Stephen Smith, a consistent figure in the history of public health, mental health, housing reform in New York, and even urban reforestation. Utilizing Smith’s writings, public records, and recently discovered personal correspondence, this research shows how Smith succeeded where others failed. It also acknowledges that Smith was unsuccessful in convincing his fellow professionals to fight for a cabinet level public health department or to resist the rise of custodial care for the mentally impaired. Given Smith’s many accomplishments, the book asks us to consider if what stopped him stops us, highlighting the relevance of Smith’s story to contemporary debates. Pestilence, Insanity, and Trees is a readable and well-documented narrative and a resource for students and scholars, filling gaps in the history of American medicine, public health, mental health, and New York social reform.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003821340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (1823–1922), who was appointed to fifty years of public service by three mayors, seven governors, and two U.S. presidents. The book presents the complex life of Stephen Smith, a consistent figure in the history of public health, mental health, housing reform in New York, and even urban reforestation. Utilizing Smith’s writings, public records, and recently discovered personal correspondence, this research shows how Smith succeeded where others failed. It also acknowledges that Smith was unsuccessful in convincing his fellow professionals to fight for a cabinet level public health department or to resist the rise of custodial care for the mentally impaired. Given Smith’s many accomplishments, the book asks us to consider if what stopped him stops us, highlighting the relevance of Smith’s story to contemporary debates. Pestilence, Insanity, and Trees is a readable and well-documented narrative and a resource for students and scholars, filling gaps in the history of American medicine, public health, mental health, and New York social reform.
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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336811980X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336811980X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture
Author: Aaron Shaheen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192599615
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Drawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and obscure American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained sculptor, Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were designed, promoted, and depicted in America in the years during and after the First World War. The war's mechanized weaponry ushered in an entirely new relationship between organic bodies and the technology that could both cause, and attempt to remedy, hideous injuries. Such a relationship was also evident in the realm of prosthetic development, which by the second decade of the twentieth century promoted the belief that a prosthesis should be a spiritual extension of the person who possessed it. This spiritualized vision of prostheses proved particularly resonant in American postwar culture. Relying on some of the most recent developments in literary and disability studies, the book's six chapters explain how a prosthesis's spiritual promise was largely dependent on its ability to nullify an injury and help an amputee renew or even improve upon his prewar life. But if it proved too cumbersome, obtrusive, or painful, the device had the long-lasting power to efface or distort his 'spirit' or personality.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192599615
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Drawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and obscure American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained sculptor, Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were designed, promoted, and depicted in America in the years during and after the First World War. The war's mechanized weaponry ushered in an entirely new relationship between organic bodies and the technology that could both cause, and attempt to remedy, hideous injuries. Such a relationship was also evident in the realm of prosthetic development, which by the second decade of the twentieth century promoted the belief that a prosthesis should be a spiritual extension of the person who possessed it. This spiritualized vision of prostheses proved particularly resonant in American postwar culture. Relying on some of the most recent developments in literary and disability studies, the book's six chapters explain how a prosthesis's spiritual promise was largely dependent on its ability to nullify an injury and help an amputee renew or even improve upon his prewar life. But if it proved too cumbersome, obtrusive, or painful, the device had the long-lasting power to efface or distort his 'spirit' or personality.
Hand-book of Surgical Operations
Author: Stephen Smith
Publisher: Norman Publishing
ISBN: 9780930405076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher: Norman Publishing
ISBN: 9780930405076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Archives of Science and Transactions of the Orleans County Society of Natural Sciences
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Cincinnati Medical Repertory
Author: John Adams Thacker
Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Life and Limb
Author: David Seed
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1781382506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The contemporary perspectives - fiction, first-hand accounts, reportage and photographs - found in the pages of this collection give a unique insight into the experiences and suffering of those affected by the American Civil War. The essays and recollections detail some of the earliest attempts by medical professionals to understand and help the wounded, and look at how writers and poets were influenced by their own involvement as nurses, combatants and observers. So alongside the medical observations of figures such as Silas Weir Mitchell and William Keen, you'll find memoirs of writers including Louisa May Alcott, Ambrose Bierce and Walt Whitman. By presenting the wide range of frequently traumatic experiences by writers, medical staff, and of course the often ignored common foot soldiers on both sides, this volume will complement the older emphasis on military history and will appeal to readers of the evolution of medicine, of the literature the time, of social anthropology, and of the whole complex issue of how the war was represented and debated from many different perspectives. While a century and a half of developments in medicine, social care and science mean that the level of support and technology available to amputees is now incomparable to that in the mid-nineteenth century, the insights into the lives and thoughts of those devastated by psychological traumas, complex emotions and difficulties in adjusting to life after limb loss remain just as relevant today. Phenomena explored in the book, such as 'Phantom Limb Syndrome', continue to be the subject of medical and academic research in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1781382506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The contemporary perspectives - fiction, first-hand accounts, reportage and photographs - found in the pages of this collection give a unique insight into the experiences and suffering of those affected by the American Civil War. The essays and recollections detail some of the earliest attempts by medical professionals to understand and help the wounded, and look at how writers and poets were influenced by their own involvement as nurses, combatants and observers. So alongside the medical observations of figures such as Silas Weir Mitchell and William Keen, you'll find memoirs of writers including Louisa May Alcott, Ambrose Bierce and Walt Whitman. By presenting the wide range of frequently traumatic experiences by writers, medical staff, and of course the often ignored common foot soldiers on both sides, this volume will complement the older emphasis on military history and will appeal to readers of the evolution of medicine, of the literature the time, of social anthropology, and of the whole complex issue of how the war was represented and debated from many different perspectives. While a century and a half of developments in medicine, social care and science mean that the level of support and technology available to amputees is now incomparable to that in the mid-nineteenth century, the insights into the lives and thoughts of those devastated by psychological traumas, complex emotions and difficulties in adjusting to life after limb loss remain just as relevant today. Phenomena explored in the book, such as 'Phantom Limb Syndrome', continue to be the subject of medical and academic research in the twenty-first century.