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War's waste rehabilitation in World War I America

Title: War's waste [electronic resource] : rehabilitation in World War I America / Beth Linker.
Author: Linker, Beth.
Publication: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

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Description

1 online resource (291 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

War's waste (Online)

Alternative Title

War's waste (Online)

Subject

Disabled veterans > Rehabilitation > History > United States > 20th century
World War, 1914-1918 > Veterans > Medical care > History > United States > 20th century
Medical rehabilitation > United States > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references ( p. 249-275) and index.

Access (note)

Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

The roots of rehabilitation -- The problem of the pensioner -- Reconstructing disabled soldiers -- A new female force -- Maximalist medicine at Walter Reed -- The limb lab and the engineering of manly bodies -- Propaganda and patient protest -- Rehabilitating the industrial army -- Walter Reed, then and now.

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