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Recycling the disabled : army, medicine, and modernity in WWI Germany / Heather R. Perry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perry, Heather R., author.
- Series:
- Disability history.
- Manchester History of Medicine
- Disability history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War (1914-1918).
- Disabled veterans--Rehabilitation--Germany--History--20th century.
- Disabled veterans.
- World War, 1914-1918--Veterans--Germany.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- People with disabilities--Rehabilitation--Germany--History--20th century.
- People with disabilities.
- Implants, Artificial--Germany--History--20th century.
- Implants, Artificial.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 228 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This book examines the 'medical organisation' of Imperial Germany for total war. Faced with mounting casualties and a growing labour shortage, German military, industrial and governmental officials turned to medical experts for assistance in the total mobilisation of society. Through an investigation of developments in orthopaedic medicine, prosthetic technology, military medical organisation and the cultural history of disability, Heather Perry reveals how the pressures of modern industrial warfare not only transformed medical ideas and treatments for injured soldiers, but also transformed social and cultural expectations of the disabled body - expectations that long outlasted the war. This book is ideal for scholars and students interested in war, medicine, disability, science and technology, and modern Germany.
- Contents:
- Introduction: War and medicine in World War I Germany
- 1. Healing the disabled: The re-orientation of German orthopaedics
- 2. Re-arming the disabled: WWI and the revolution in artificial limbs
- 3. Rehabilitation nation: Re-membering the disabled in war-time Germany
- 4. Inventing disability: Re-casting the 'cripple' in war-time Germany
- 5. Recycling the disabled: The mobilization of the wounded in war-time Germany
- Conclusion: Mobilization, militarization, and medicalization in WWI Germany.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print record.
- ISBN:
- 9781526106773
- 1526106779
- 9781526103116
- 1526103117
- 9781781707982
- 1781707987
- OCLC:
- 980291314
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