Life and Limb Perspectives on the American Civil War 1st Edition by David Seed, Stephen Kenny, Chris Williams ISBN 1781382506 9781781382509

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ISBN 10: 1781382506

ISBN 13: 9781781382509

Author:  David Seed, Stephen C. Kenny, Chris Williams 

Life and Limb: Perspectives on the American Civil War 1st Edition: 

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.

 

Life and Limb: Perspectives on the American Civil War 1st Edition Table of contents:

Introduction

• Civil War Voices and Visions

Early Experiences in the Field

• Surgical Reminiscences of the Civil War
• Case 275: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion

Accounts of Nursing

• With the US Sanitary Commission: The Other Side of War
• Evacuation from Virginia 1862: Hospital Transports
• Hospital Routine: Hospital Days
• A Death in the Ward: Hospital Sketches
• Nurse and Spy: Nurse and Spy in the Union Army
• Front-Line Nursing: Reminiscences of My Life in Camp
• “The Mute Look That Rolls and Moves”: Walt Whitman’s Civil War
• Specimen Days (“Down at the Front,” etc.)

Medical Facilities and Pathology

• Jonathan Letterman on the Medical Corps: Medical Recollections of the Army
• The Confederate Military Prison Hospital at Andersonville, Georgia: Contributions to the Causation and Prevention of Disease
• Field Hospitals: A Glimpse: Hardtack and Coffee
• Field Hospitals: The Need: A Manual of Military Surgery
• Plea for an Ambulance Service: A Brief Plea for an Ambulance System
• Hospital Broadside: North Carolina Hospital Broadside (1863)
• Hospitals in Richmond Virginia: A Diary from Dixie
• Malingering: Surgical Reminiscences and A Rebel’s Recollections
• Roberts Bartholomew on Nostalgia: Contributions to the Causation
• Medical Welfare Begins: “Debut and Prospectus,” The Crutch (1864)
• “Sanatosia,” “Wounded” (poem)
• “(Dis)embodied Identities: Civil War Soldiers, Surgeons, and the Medical Memories of Combat”

Photography

• “Painful Looks: Medical Photography of the Civil War”
• Mathew Brady’s Photographs: Pictures of the Dead at Antietam

Amputations and Prosthetic Limbs

• The Invalid Corps (song)
• “The Case of Napoleon Perkins”
• The First Amputee: “Record of Services”
• Testimonial Letter: Reporter on the New Patent Artificial Leg (1863)
• The Salem Leg (1864): Under the Patronage of the United States Government
• “The Human Wheel, Its Spokes and Felloes”
• “The Case of George Dedlow”
• “Phantom Limbs”

In the Field of Battle

• Diary: October 29, 1862: The Civil War Diary of Henry Tisdale
• The Battle of Shiloh: Aftermath: “The Battle of Shiloh,” Annals of the War
• Battle of Ellyson’s Mills: A Confederate Surgeon’s Letters to His Wife
• Aftermath of Battle, Cedar Mountain, Virginia: “Personal Recollections of the War”
• After the Battle of Winchester: A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War
• The Negro as Soldier
• Army Life in a Black Regiment

Post-War Narratives

• Ambrose Bierce: “What I Saw of Shiloh”
• Ambrose Bierce: “The Coup de Grace”
• Ambrose Bierce: “A Resumed Identity”
• Warren Lee Goss: Recollections of a Private
• Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage (from Chapter 8)

 

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