Heather Perry

Recycling the disabled (eBook, ePUB)

Army, medicine, and modernity in WWI Germany

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526103123
• Artikelnr.: 48795958

Autorenporträt

Heather R. Perry is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Inhaltsangabe

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 Bibliography