War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America

With US soldiers stationed around the world and engaged in multiple conflicts, Americans will be forced for...
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Author: Beth Linker
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Language: English
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War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America by Linker, Beth

War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America

¥12,731

War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America

¥12,731
Author: Beth Linker
Format: Paperback
Language: English
With US soldiers stationed around the world and engaged in multiple conflicts, Americans will be forced for the foreseeable future to come to terms with those permanently disabled in battle. At the moment, we accept rehabilitation as the proper social and cultural response to the wounded, swiftly returning injured combatants to their civilian lives. But this was not always the case, as Beth Linker reveals in her provocative new book, War's Waste. Linker explains how, before entering World War I, the United States sought a way to avoid the enormous cost of providing injured soldiers with pensions, which it had done since the Revolutionary War. Emboldened by their faith in the new social and medical sciences, reformers pushed rehabilitation as a means to "rebuild" disabled soldiers, relieving the nation of a monetary burden and easing the decision to enter the Great War. Linker's narrative moves from the professional development of orthopedic surgeons and physical therapists to the curative workshops, or hospital spaces where disabled soldiers learned how to repair automobiles as well as their own artificial limbs. The story culminates in the postwar establishment of the Veterans Administration, one of the greatest legacies to come out of the First World War.

Author: Beth Linker
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 02/26/2014
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780226143354

About the Author

Beth Linker is associate professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.


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