Historian Sarah Handley-Cousins discusses the presence and treatment of the “invisible wounds” suffered by Civil War soldiers.
Civil War Breakthroughs is a podcast that explores how the inventions, ideas, and innovations of the Civil War era defined a new kind of conflict. In our second season, The Medical Renaissance, we'll explore how modern medicine took root during the Civil War.
On this episode, we're joined by Sarah Handley-Cousins, an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of History at the University of Buffalo and author of Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North (2019). She talks about the presence and treatment of the “invisible wounds” suffered by Civil War soldiers.