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Disabled veterans in history / David A. Gerber, editor ; afterword by Jonathan Shay.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Corporealities
- Corporealities: discourses of disability
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Veterans Health--history.
- Disabled Persons--history.
- Veterans--history.
- Armed Conflicts--history.
- Public Policy--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Veterans Health--history.
- Disabled Persons--history.
- Veterans--history.
- Armed Conflicts--history.
- Public Policy--history.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- Enlarged and revised edition, first paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction : finding disabled veterans in history / David A. Gerber
- Representation. Philoctetes in historical context / Martha Edwards
- Heroes and misfits : the troubled social reintegration of disabled veterans in The best years of our lives / David A. Gerber
- Bitterness, rage, and redemption : Hollywood constructs the disabled Vietnam veteran / Martin F. Norden
- Public policy. Disabled veterans and the state in early modern England / Geoffrey L. Hudson
- "A sacred debt" : veterans and the state in revolutionary and Napoleonic France / Isser Woloch
- From individual trauma to national policy : tracking the uses of Civil War veteran medical records / Robert I. Goler and Michael G. Rhode
- Work-therapy and the disabled British soldier in Great Britain in the First World War : the cased of Shepherd's Bush Military Hospital, London / Jeffrey S. Reznick
- "Empty sleeves and wooden pegs" : disabled Confederate veterans in image and reality / R.B. Rosenburg
- Fifty years of pain : the history of Austrian disabled veterans after 1945 / Gregory Weeks
- Disabled Russian War veterans : surviving the collapse of the Soviet Union / Ethel Dunn
- Living with a disability : adjustments and maladjustments. Nomads in blue : disabled veterans and alcohol at the national home / James Marten
- Will to work : disabled veterans in Britain and Germany after the First World War / Deborah Cohen
- Lieutenant John Counsell and the development of medical rehabilitation and disability policy in Canada / Mary Tremblay
- Post-modern American heroism : anti-war war heroes, survivor heroes, and the eclipse of traditional warrior values / David A. Gerber
- Afterword : a challenge to historians / Jonathan Shay.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472035083
- 0472035088
- 9780472028887
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.3874458
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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