War, disability and rehabilitation in Britain

Julie Anderson is Senior Lecturer in the History Department at the University of Kent

• AcknowledgementsList of illustrationsList of tablesIntroduction1. Unfortunates: Disability 1900-392. Attitude: Disabled ex-servicemen after the First World War3. Soul: Rehabilitation in the Second World War4. Fit: The process of rehabilitation5. Men: Masculinity and rehabilitation6. Revealed: Women and rehabilitation7. Nation: Rehabilitation and the stateConclusionBibliographyIndex

'Julie Anderson is one of the leading historians working in the area of Disability Studies...This book is essential reading for anyone interested in military medicine. It directly addresses the debates about whether ‘war is good for medicine’... 'War, Disability and Rehabilitation' in Britain is a meticulous and often riveting story of pain,politics and rehabilitation.'Professor Joanna Bourke, Social History of Medicine, May 2012, Joanna Bourke, Social History of Medicine, 31 January 2012|'a welcome addition to the growing field of disability history of early to mid-twentieth-century Britain ... informative reading for all students of disability history and rehabilitation.'Dee Hoole, H-Disability August, 2013