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After war : the weight of life at Walter Reed / Zoë H. Wool.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wool, Zoë Hamilton, author.
- Series:
- Critical global health.
- Critical global health
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
- Soldiers--Wounds and injuries--United States.
- Soldiers.
- Disabled veterans--Medical care--United States.
- Disabled veterans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Zoë H. Wool explores how the most severely injured veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars rehabilitating at Walter Reed Medical Center-whether recovering from losing a limb or sustaining a traumatic brain injury-struggle to build some kind of ordinary life in a situation that is anything but ordinary.
- Contents:
- The extra/ordinary atmosphere of Walter Reed
- A present history of fragments
- The economy of patriotism
- On movement
- Intimate attachments and the securing of life.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822375098
- 0822375095
- OCLC:
- 1139382939
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