George and Ann RichardsCivil War Era Center

We were so excited to workshop Moyra Williams Eaton’s dissertation chapter, “The Navy’s Systematizers: Surgeons and the Politics of Care in the War of 1812 Era.” Moyra’s chapter looks at the politics and practicalities of Congress and the navy’s efforts to establish a system of naval hospitals for ill and injured sailors between 1810 and the mid-1820’s. Her chapter is drawn from her larger dissertation project entitled “Constructing a ‘Comfortable Harbour’: The United States Naval Asylum and the Systemization of Veterans’ Care in the Nineteenth Century.”