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War's waste : rehabilitation in World War I America / Beth Linker.
LIBRA UB363 .L56 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Linker, Beth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disabled veterans--Rehabilitation--United States--History--20th century.
- Disabled veterans.
- World War, 1914-1918--Veterans--Medical care--United States--History--20th century.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Medical rehabilitation--United States--History--20th century.
- Medical rehabilitation.
- History.
- Disabled veterans--Rehabilitation.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- The roots of rehabilitation
- The problem of the pensioner
- Reconstructing disabled soldiers
- A new female force
- Maximalist medicine at Walter Reed
- The limb lab and the engineering of manly bodies
- Propaganda and patient protest
- Rehabilitating the industrial army
- Walter Reed, then and now.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226482538
- 0226482537
- OCLC:
- 666234989
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