Healing a Divided Nation: How the American Civil War Revolutionized Western Medicine (Adrienne MD) john brown Army medical officer and an

Army medical officer and an independent scholar whose interest in historical research focuses on the human side of America’s Civil War era

patriotic men who fought racism and discrimination to attend medical school and serve with the U

spent the first several months of the American Civil War successfully laboring to maintain Kentucky's loyalty to the Union and then went on to serve as President Lincoln's judge advocate general

Officers couldn’t even see their own men during the fighting

Healing a Divided Nation: How the American Civil War Revolutionized Western Medicine (Adrienne MD) john brown Army medical officer and anby Carole Adrienne At the start of the Civil War, the medical field in America was rudimentary, unsanitary, and woefully underprepared to address what would become the bloodiest conflict on U. S. soil. However, in this historic moment of pivotal social and political change, medicine was also fast evolving to meet the needs of the time. Unprecedented strides were made in the science of medicine, and as women and African Americans were admitted into the