War, Disability and Rehabilitation in Britain - ''Soul of a Nation''

Informationen zum Autor Julie Anderson is a Senior Lecturer in the History Department at the University of Kent Klappentext Through a series of thematic chapters, Julie Anderson explores the nature of injured and disabled bodies before, during and after the Second World War. Beginning at the end of the First World War and finishing with the publication of the Piercy Committee's report in 1956, the book examines medical practice, State support, societal attitudes and cultural meanings surrounding disabled war veterans and civilians. The book focuses on the embodied nature of the rehabilitative process, its gendered nature and the concentration on bodily fitness during the war. Through a series of case studies, this wide-ranging book seeks to understand the processes, methodology and practice of rehabilitation for those injured and disabled in war, and reflect on its adoption into post-war medical practice, State support and social life.War, disability and rehabilitation in Britain will interest historians of medicine, war and disability studies. Zusammenfassung Through a series of thematic chapters! this book focuses on the nature of injured and disabled bodies in relation to rehabilitative practices established in Britain during and immediately following the Second World War. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Julie Anderson, Julie (Professor of Modern History) Anderson, ANDERSON JULIE
• Assisted by: Penny Summerfield (Editor), Bertrand Taithe (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2011
• EAN: 9780719082504
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8250-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cultural History of Modern War; Cultural History of Modern War
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; European History, HISTORY / Military / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, History of Medicine, British & Irish history, Second World War, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater