TY  - BOOK
TI  - Recycling the disabled: army, medicine, and modernity in WWI Germany
AU  - Perry, Heather R.
PY  - 2014
PB  - Manchester Univ. Press
LA  - eng
KW  - Germany
KW  - Deutschland
KW  - Erster Weltkrieg
KW  - Kriegsbeschädigter
KW  - Medizinische Versorgung
KW  - Geschichte
AB  - This book 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
SP  - xi, 228 S.
SN  - 9780719089244
T2  - Disability history
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/kxp-786795700
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -