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1. Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science

Author

Flannery, Michael A.

Subjects
Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science (Nonfiction work) -- Devine, Shauna -- Book reviews, History, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science, by Shauna Devine. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2014. x, 372 pp. $39.95 US [...]

Published
2014

2. The Great Fever

Author

Flannery, Michael A. and Toplin, Robert Brent

Subjects
The Great Fever (Motion picture) -- Movie reviews, Motion pictures -- Movie reviews, History, Regional focus/area studies
Published
2007

4. Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts

Author

Flannery, Michael A.

Subjects
Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts (Collection) -- Reid, Richard M. -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies, History
Abstract

Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts. Edited by Richard M. Reid. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. 288 pp. Illustrations. [...]

Published
2013

6. "Frauds," "Filth Parties," "Yeast Fads," and "Black Boxes": Pellagra and Southern Pride, 1906-2003.

Author

FLANNERY, MICHAEL A.

Subjects
*PELLAGRA, *HISTORY of epidemics, *PUBLIC health, *NUTRITION, *TWENTIETH century, *HISTORY
Abstract

The article discusses the history of American pellagra epidemic, which began with physician George H. Searcy's discovery of this nutritional deficiency in Mobile, Alabama in 1906 to 2003, and the Southern pride. Topics include the role of U.S. Public Health Service officer Joseph Goldberger and his research team on the epidemic as a result of the South economic conditions, Goldberger's contribution to the science of human nutrition, and the successful treatment of pellegra with nicotinic acid.

Published
2016

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