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Paperback. Condition: New. First Edition. Unread and unopened! The horrors of the Civil War have been described in stacks of books over the years. Why was the War so bad? In part, it's because not everything in life advances at the same pace. In tactics and strategy, the War was fought much as George Washington had fought the Revolution, but the Industrial Revolution made it possible for the North to produce and supply unlimited materiel and weaponry to armies of unprecedented size. It was improved weaponry too, inflicting unprecedented casualties. But the Medical Revolution wasn't to come until after the Lincolns' time. Until then doctors still operated the way they'd done for nearly two thousand years. In fact, since the ancient methods bore no relation to reality, medicine had actually degraded over the centuries. A soldier wounded at Antietam or Gettysburg would have been better off treated by Galen himself, who understood aseptic technique that had been forgotten after the fall of Rome. Medics in Lincoln's time had chloroform, opium, and a few other new drugs, but most of those were still in short supply and still controversial. Doctors never understood how or why effective drugs work, and they administered everything without regard for side effects, on the battlefield and in civilian practice alike. By taking a methodological approach in Mrs. Lincoln's Recovery, Kevin shows us the whole scope of horrors that was medicine in nineteenth-century America. We see more than just a catalogue of outdated practices, more than just how things went wrong: we can see why things went wrong.And we can predict when and how they'll go wrong again."If you understand the method of any field," he always says, "you can understand the field. And if you understand method, you can understand any field. "The results of this approach explain much of what happened to Mary Lincoln and to countless other Americans of her time. Her doctors, the most renowned of her day, sincerely believed that their primitive, even barbaric, remedies were the most advanced treatments ever known to Mankind. But Mrs. Lincoln was not only up against "modern medicine": she also faced threats we still face today, and which continue to have disastrous consequences. She was treated differently because she was female,doctors believing females were inherently different, weaker, and prone to hysterics. These same discriminatory practices continue to guide much of medical practice and education, casting aside populations perceived as weaker, dumber, or poorer. Just as outdated therapies killed millions in Mrs. Lincoln's day, outdated beliefs continue to kill millions today. So, beyond recovering the facts about medicine in those days, this methodological history also challenges us to ask ourselves the questions that never even occurred to Mary Todd Lincoln's doctors. Why are we doing this in this way? What are we doing wrong? What are we doing right? How can we do better? Do our results correspond to our ex-pectations? Where do these beliefs come from and are they based in reality? Are we applying the right remedies to the people who need them most? Maybe if we ask ourselves the questions that Kevin raises here about our past, we can gain the benefit of hindsight in advance. 464pp.

Paperback. Condition: New. First Edition. Unread and unopened! A new study of Lincoln you do not want to miss!! The standard story of Abraham Lincoln is sealed off from the rest of our past, then. Because it conceals a vast and bloody revolution, it can't connect with what came before; and because it seeks to justify that violent coup d'tat as if it were perfectly consistent with our laws it can't be used to explain what came after. It's overwhelmingly trivial, too, for the same reasons, burying actual causes and effects in a flurry of minutia; and so, no matter how you look at it, it's entirely inconsequential. It never gets anywhere near the real questions about the time, the causes of the War, the military invasions of the states, the killing of six hundred thousand Americans by other Americans, the utter destruction of the South and of the rule of law across the North and the whole Union, the catastrophic damage that the Party wrought upon our America, and the causative relation of all of this to all of our problems today. This disconnection, this scrupulous avoidance of anything like genuine historiography for this period and this period alone, is perfectly understandable. If the Departments of Lincoln Studies did approach those questions honestly, with a good logical method as actual historians do, they could only raise larger questions about the present regime and about its legitimacy, and those questions could not be answered by the version of history that the Republican Party put forth in its perpetual ascendancy after it won its War. The subsidies would cease, and the Departments of Lincoln Studies wink out. So, from incompetence or a will to deceive or a simple failure to understand Lincoln's history or a purposeful urge to falsify it all, most of the standard literature of Lincoln Studies is simply not true. Much of it's preposterous on its face, and some of it's so absurd as to approach hilarity. But even in some of the most remarkable cases, in prize-winning books and articles written by the Lincolnolators most lauded, the footnotes, on the apparent presumption that nobody will follow them, refer the reader to documents that don't say anything at all about the matter or that don't exist at all and never did. Some Lincolnolators flitter off on flights of fancy unsupported by the faintest breath of fact, twittering about their preconclusions just as if the document actually said that when there's not a word there to uphold it. Or, strangest of all, they set the evidence in an interpretation that flatly contradicts what the evidence plainly signifies, right there on the page. 680pp.

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