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Recycling the Disabled

Army, Medicine, and Modernity in WWI Germany

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

AvHeather Perry

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Recycling the disabled: Army, medicine, and modernity in WWI Germany 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-08-31
Mått138 x 216 x 23 mm
Vikt414 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDisability History
Antal sidor240
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9780719089244

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Medicinhistoria inom Medicin
Sociala och etiska frågor inom Samhälle och politik

Introduction: War and medicine in World War I Germany1. Healing the disabled: The re-orientation of German orthopaedics2. Re-arming the disabled: WWI and the revolution in artificial limbs3. Rehabilitation nation: Re-membering the disabled in war-time Germany4. Inventing disability: Re-casting the ‘cripple’ in war-time Germany5. Recycling the disabled: The mobilization of the wounded in war-time GermanyConclusion: Mobilization, militarization, and medicalization in WWI GermanyBibliography

'Heather Perry's Recycling the Disabled is a welcome and much needed addition to the historiography of Germany's First World War experience. For a non-expert in the new field of Disability History in specific and medical history in general, this book serves as an excellent entry point and a fine addition to any collection on German society in the grip of Total War.' - Brendan Murphy, Department of History, University of Sheffield, June 2016‘This book is an important contribution to the historiography of World War I and should hold particular interest for historians of medicine and of technology.’Lisa J. Pruitt, Middle Tennessee State University, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 90, Number 4, Winter 2016‘This book is a useful part of a growing literature on rehabilitation in World War I.’Sanders Marble, San Antonio Texas, German History Table, Volume 35, Issue 4‘This is an important book…very informative and makes an excellent contribution to ourcollective knowledge.’Emmeline Burdett, University College London, H-Disability, November 2017