Without concealment, without compromise : the courageous lives of Black Civil War surgeons

Without concealment, without compromise : the courageous lives of Black Civil War surgeons /

"This collective biography illuminates how the lives and successes of fourteen African American physicians who became surgeons during the American Civil War challenged the prescribed notions of race in America and played a crucial role in the evolving definition of freedom and patriotism"-...

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Main Author: Newmark, Jill L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2023]
Series:Engaging the Civil War.
Subjects:
United States. > Army > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Biography.
United States. > Army.
1800-1899
African American surgeons > Biography.
African American physicians > Biography.
Medicine, Military > United States > History > 19th century.
African American physicians > History > 19th century.
African American surgeons > History > 19th century.
Surgeons > United States > History > 19th century.
Physicians > United States > History > 19th century.
African American physicians.
African American surgeons.
African Americans.
Medical care.
Medicine, Military.
Physicians.
Surgeons.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Medical care.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > African Americans.
United States.
United States > Confederate States of America.
Biographies.
History.
Description
Summary:"This collective biography illuminates how the lives and successes of fourteen African American physicians who became surgeons during the American Civil War challenged the prescribed notions of race in America and played a crucial role in the evolving definition of freedom and patriotism"--
Physical Description:xxi, 283 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-268) and indexes.
ISBN:9780809339044
0809339048

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