Recycling the Disabled - Army, Medicine, and Modernity in Wwi Germany

Examines the "medical organisation" of Imperial Germany for total war

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

Examines the “medical organisation” of Imperial Germany for total war -- .

Product details

• Authors: Heather Perry, Heather R. Perry, Heather R. Perry
• Assisted by: Julie Anderson (Editor), Walton Schalick (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2014
• EAN: 9780719089244
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8924-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Disability History; Disability History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous