Mending Broken Soldiers The Union and Confederate Programs to Supply Artificial Limbs

Name: Mending Broken Soldiers The Union and Confederate Programs to Supply Artificial Limbs
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ISBN: 9780809331307

ISBN-10: 0809331306

ISBN-13: 9780809331307

Edition: 2012

Authors: Guy Hasegawa, James Schmidt

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The four years of the Civil War saw bloodshed on a scale unprecedented in the history of the United States. Thousands of soldiers and sailors from both sides who survived the horrors of the war faced hardship for the rest of their lives as amputees. Now Guy R. Hasegawa presents the first volume to explore the wartime provisions made for amputees in need of artificial limbs—programs that, while they revealed stark differences between the resources and capabilities of the North and the South, were the forebears of modern government efforts to assist in the rehabilitation of wounded service members.Hasegawa draws upon numerous sources of archival information to offer a comprehensive look at…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 9/30/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Foreword


Preface




Melancholy Harvest



The Best Substitutes Known to Art



Noble Charity



Good and Serviceable Limbs



An Act of Esteem and Gratitude



Manifold Difficulties



Magnificent Benefaction


Appendixes



Makers and Inventors Associated with the Union and Confederate Artificial-Limbs Programs



Artificial Limbs and Resection Apparatus Supplied to U.S. Soldiers and Sailors by May 10, 1866


Notes


Bibliography


Index


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