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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Publisher
Manchester University PressYear
2015Print ISBN
9781526106773
9780719089244
eBook ISBN
9781526103123
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- Series editors’ foreword
- Preface and acknowledgements
- A note on language
- Introduction: war and medicine in World War I Germany
- 1 Healing the war-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 mobilisation of the wounded in war-time Germany
- Conclusion: mobilisation, militarisation, and medicalisation in WWI Germany
- Bibliography
- Index
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