Jim Downs is Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Era Studies and History at Gettysburg College. He is the editor of Civil War History and author and editor of six other books, including Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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A grassroots history of American medicine that shows how regular people were architects of medical knowledge and care. Most histories of medicine center doctors: the standard-bearers of expertise and innovation. Yet these narratives underplay the r... SEE MORE