Politics of Wounds - Military Patients and Medical Power in the First World War

Zusatztext a very welcome contribution to the medical history of war in general and the First World War in particular, wholeheartedly recommended to all interested in the matter (and everyone else). Informationen zum Autor Ana Carden-Coyne is Co-Director of the Centre for the Cultural History of War, University of Manchester, and co-founder, Disability History Group, UK/Europe. Her publications include Reconstructing the Body: Classicism, Modernism and the First World War (2009), Gender and Conflict Since 1914: Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (ed., 2012); Cultures of the Abdomen: A History of Diet, Digestion and Fat in the Modern World (ed. with C.E. Forth, 2005), and a special edition on disability, European Review of History, (ed. with J. Anderson, 2007), among other works. She is curator of the WW1 centenary art exhibition, The Sensory War, 1914-2014, with Manchester Art Gallery and the Whitworth Art Gallery. Klappentext This volume offers a new cultural approach to the history of medicine and wounding in the First World War, placing personal experiences of pain into the social, cultural, and political contexts of military medical institutions. Zusammenfassung This volume offers a new cultural approach to the history of medicine and wounding in the First World War, placing personal experiences of pain into the social, cultural, and political contexts of military medical institutions.

Product details

• Authors: Ana Carden-Coyne, Ana (Co-Director Carden-Coyne, Carden-Coyne Ana
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2014
• EAN: 9780199698264
• ISBN: 978-0-19-969826-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Europe, European History, First World War, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I