Rehabilitating Bodies : : Health, History, and the American Civil War /

Rehabilitating Bodies : : Health, History, and the American Civil War / / Lisa A. Long.

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The American Civil War is one of the most documented, romanticized, and perennially reenacted events in American history. In Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War, Lisa A. Long charts how its extreme carnage dictated the Civil War's development into a lasting trope...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
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Long, Lisa A.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2004
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 6 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Year That Trembled and Reel'd beneath Me
  • 1 Doctors' Bodies: Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and Patient Malingering
  • 2 Dead Bodies: Mourning Fictions and the Corporeity of Heaven
  • 3 Sanitized Bodies: The United States Sanitary Commission and Soul Sickness
  • 4 Experimental Bodies: African American Writers and the Rehabilitation of War Work
  • 5 Soldiers' Bodies: Historical Fictions and the Sickness of Battle
  • 6 Nursing Bodies: Civil War Women and Postbellum Regeneration
  • 7 Historical Bodies: African American Scholars and the Discipline of History
  • Epilogue: Conjuring Civil War Bodies
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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