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Wounded for life : seven Union veterans of the Civil War / Robert D. Hicks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hicks, Robert D., 1952- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care.
- United States.
- Masculinity--United States--History.
- Masculinity.
- Body image--United States--History--20th century.
- Body image.
- Body image--Care--United States--History--19th century.
- Disabled veterans--United States--History--20th century.
- Disabled veterans.
- Disabled veterans--Care--United States--History--19th century.
- Disabled veterans--United States--Social conditions--20th century.
- Disabled veterans--United States--Social conditions--19th century.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans.
- Soldiers--Medical care--United States--History--19th century.
- Soldiers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 500 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "Most histories of wounded Civil War veterans construe them as feminized men whose manhood has suffered due to their inability to provide for and raise families or engage in business. Wounded for Life complicates this picture by examining how seven veterans-six soldiers and one physician-coped with their changed bodies in their postwar lives.Through these intimate stories, author Robert D. Hicks looks at the veteran's body as shaped by the trauma of the battlefield and hospital and the construction of a postwar identity in relation to that trauma. Through his research, he reveals the changing social circumstances of the late 19th and early 20th centuries as they impacted the traumatized veteran's body. This engaging book is equal parts Civil War history, disability and gender history, and the history of the body that discloses the impact of war on a wounded warrior"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Listening to Another's Wound
- Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914)
- Electric Agony
- Henry Adolph Kircher (1841-1908)
- Richard Downey Dunphy (1841?-1904)
- Prestley Dorsey/Dawson (1842?-1907)
- John Shields (1839-1923)
- Thomas R. Hawkins (1840-1870)
- Henry Shippen Huidekoper (1839-1918)
- The Wind of Their Place and Time.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780253070777
- 0253070775
- 9780253070784
- 0253070783
- OCLC:
- 1427666250
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