Public Health Issues In 1864

During the Civil War, medicine was an important aspect for every soldier due to the fact that many soldiers had to fight and ended up with injuries also there were many types of illnesses. In this essay, I will focus on the advance of medicine during the Civil War. Also how the soldiers and civilians were treated as well as how sanitize their location was, are questions I will try to answer. Also, I will like to include some of most known causes of deaths during the Civil War and the types of diseases that soldiers would come in contact with. Include who was in charge of the hospitals during the war. I will also include information from letters and documents that the nurse and doctors wrote while the Civil War was going one and what kind of establishments were created and the kind of equipment they used in the hospital. Since the period of the Civil War was and is consider to be the start and growth of the medical industry it is important for me to find out why.

Have you ever wondered what our Healthcare system was like in the 1800’s? Have you never wondered what they did to cure disease, treat broken bones, how society back then as a culture acted, and among other things why woman had been the main pioneer of this field? This is what my research topic consists of and below you’ll find my opinions and sources that I have used to come to the conclusion I have to illuminate the Healthcare system in the 1800’s.

Despite its barbaric reputation, the Civil War greatly impacted the sanitation systems used in today’s medical fields. One major impact in today’s sanitation systems, are the methods doctors and surgeons use to help prevent disease and infections. One way doctors prevent the spread of diseases, is by washing their hands for a full ten minutes before operating or examining a patient. This method of preventing diseases is efficient because it kills the germs that are on a medical officials hand and prevents them from spreading to the next patient from the doctor or surgeon palpating the patient (“Medicine During the Civil War”). This is one of the greatest medical innovations gained from the Civil War. Since there are now proper medical schools, doctors and surgeons are now able to realize the causes of certain bacterial and viral infections. Another way that today’s sanitation systems were affected from the Civil War, are the precautionary steps that medical officials take to keep today’s hospitals clean from bacteria and viruses. Today’s

     When Walt Whitman wrote that he believed the “real war” would never get into the books, this is the side he was talking about (Belferman 1996). Yet, it is important that we remember and recall the medical side of the conflict too, as horrible and terrifying as it was (Adams 1952). Long before doctors and people knew anything about bacteria and what caused disease was the time of Civil War medicine. Doctors during the Civil War (always referred to as “surgeons”) were incredibly unprepared. Most surgeons had as little as two years of medical school because very few pursued further education. At that time, Harvard Medical School did not even own a single stethoscope or

The civil war was a long hard fought battle that left many people injured and deceased. Throughout this war America started seeing a major need for doctors and medical personnel. Medicine was on high demand and the importance of the american doctors and nurses was very high. Medical technology was limited during the 19th century, but the doctors and nurses worked hard to expand their knowledge and learn more about treatments.

The Civil War, in terms of death, is considered the most brutal in United States history—but it was not because of the way the battles were fought that it was so disturbing, but because of the sheer amount of death in general. Approximately 620,000 soldiers died during the War Between the States, and from those, two-thirds died not in battle, but because of disease. Disease was so rampant and conditions so unhygienic that it not only wiped out hundreds of thousands of lives, but it also wiped out the gallantry that most soldiers hoped they would achieve when they entered the war, and the despair brought on because of disease is evident in the letters the soldiers sent home. Disease was the real enemy, because hygiene and organization were virtually unknown in medical practices, coupled with

The American Civil War was a horrible time of pain and suffering, especially to those who fought in the war. The Civil War caused hundreds and thousands of deaths, yet many of these were not the result of battle wounds. About two thirds of deaths from the Civil War were attributed to disease. Of course, even though the majority of soldiers that did not die during the war left without limbs, and left with trauma and disabilities, the results could have been much worse without the medical advancements we gained during the war. Technical advances in hygiene, surgery, and medical efficiency all became substantial outcomes that furthered medical practices and helped shape medicine in the modern age.

Early 1900 Treatment begins in the U.S. Physicians come organized to make the American Medical Association.

Healthcare in America was very limited during the early 1800s but advanced during the 1900s. One of the most critical scientific discoveries was made by Alexander Fleming in 1928 when he found a way to fight infection utilizing penicillin (Ho, 1999). This provided a way to treat infection and save lives. Also, facilities, organizational structure and training of health care were limited along with advancements in medicine and technology. However the expansion of heath care facilities advanced with the adoption of the Hill-Burton Act that provided federal funds matched by state/local governments to construct 10,748 healthcare facilities ranging from nursing homes, mental health and public hospitals (Thomas, 2006). Prior to this there were

The Civil War was the bloodiest, most gruesome war in American history. The war had the people of the United States dreaming of a new era, a modern age were their children could live a brighter future. The medical care during the Civil War was evolving and growing. Advances in medical care such as amputations, sheltering, and procedures helped reduce the casualties suffered in this war. On the other side of the war advances in weaponry made it harder for already primitive medical treatment.

We are all aware of the tragedy that took place in our nation from 1861 to 1865. The Civil War resulted in needless, devastating deaths of thousands of soldiers. What we might not be aware of, however, is the number one killer throughout those years. More soldiers died from this single calamity than battle wounds or blood loss. The catastrophe that tragically affected more soldiers than any other element of the war was disease.

Sexual favours in return for money, just the thought of this has people cringing, although laws have deemed to move forward with the idea of prostitution it seems although socially there has not been much progress. The idea of prostitution still scares, or one could even go as far to say it disgusts people. The lack of knowledge and awareness of the details of sex work create this ongoing hate towards sex work, which continues to stigmatize sex workers. Regardless of changing laws, regardless of changing policies, why is it that sex workers are still afraid to proudly announce that their job is in fact the job of a sex worker? Unfortunately, it seems as though the idea of sex work that seems to be such a terrible one is not what bothers sex workers the most, it is the social misconception of what sex work is like that leads these individuals to feel highly stigmatized (Van der Meulen and Redwood, 2013). The primary harm for of prostitution seems to be the stigma against prostitution, women involved in prostitution are considered socially invisible as full human beings (Farley, 2004). Why is it that our changing and progressing laws are still unable to remove this stigma from the lives of sex workers? This paper will argue that prostitution laws continue to produce stigma around sex work. It will argue this through revisiting the historical laws, examining present laws and ongoing laws at this time.

In the Victorian Era it was so inappropriate to talk about sexuality, it is hard to find anything in literature that could connect the irreproachable and honorable aristocracy to prostitution in any ways. Although, the best patrons of these working women were always the nobility. To tell exactly how many prostitutes were in Britain in the 19th century would be an absolutely futile attempt, since the “hidden prostitution” problem due to brothels, and the stuffed small homes where too many people lived all together. It was widely recognized that the

The agenda of concealment is further confirmed by Fitzgibbon’s conclusion that legislation needed to be implemented, similar to the repealed CDAs, because ‘the source of all syphilis is prostitution’, and he believed it needed to be eradicated at the source. He skirts around the issue of married men being a transmitter of venereal disease, despite it clearly being a contemporary concern. Instead, he flippantly refers very ambiguously to ‘innocent victims’. As a speech, and not a medical text with the purpose to inform and educate, it is only to be expected that Fitzgibbon’s personal views would be more apparent here than Hutchinson’s. Incidentally, the example supports Smith’s argument more substantially than Hutchinson’s Syphilis does. Yet, perhaps, as an institutionalised man, holding a position of prestige in his profession, Fitzgibbon did not want to broach a topic of controversy and speak about the sexual misdemeanours of unmarried men or rogue husbands to his audience. Also, it could well be that as a self-proclaimed admirer and proponent of the CDAs he had not moved on in his beliefs since the 1860s, and still held that prostitutes were the source of venereal disease, and that male sexual impuse was so natural it did not require acknowledgement. Hence, whilst the agenda of concealment seems

The legal definition of prostitution has recently expanded in many Australian jurisdictions to encompass voyeuristic practices as well as non-monetary exchanges. Prostitution laws now make inclusions for massage parlours, phone sex and computer sex. Sullivan’s study into the politics of the sex industry in Australia since 1945, found that due to the shifts in sexual culture there have been discursive changes in society’s’ view of what constitutes as prostitution and what signifies as deviant sexual behaviour. Post war culture accentuated sexuality as the source of individual uniqueness, later progressing into the ideals of equality and mutuality between the sexes thus producing our sexual culture, as we know it today.