Book ID: CBB535039600

Recycling the Disabled: Army, Medicine, and Modernity in WWI Germany (2014)

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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.

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Review Lisa J. Pruitt (2016) Review of "Recycling the Disabled: Army, Medicine, and Modernity in WWI Germany". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 739-740). unapi

Review Derek Linton (2016) Review of "Recycling the Disabled: Army, Medicine, and Modernity in WWI Germany". Social History of Medicine (pp. 194-195). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Linker, Beth
Biernoff, Suzannah
Bamji, Andrew
Nair, Aparna
Sullivan, Evan P.
Fogarty, Rick
Concepts
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
World War I
Disabilities; disability; accessibility
Rehabilitation
Medicine
Orthopedics
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
Germany
Great Britain
England
Americas
Spain
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