Medical Malpractice: From Drunkenness To Desertion, Some Union Doctors Did More Than Surgery

Authors

Peter J. D'Onofrio

ISBN

811716031

Publication Date

2000-06-01

Publisher

Stackpole Books

Abstract

Tarnished Scalpels tells the story of 50 Union doctors who, for various reasons, faced military court-martials, some for misdeeds that stagger the imagination. Society of Civil War Surgeons members Thomas P. Lowry, author of The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell and Tarnished Eagles....