Healing the Nation: Soldiers and the Culture of Caregiving in Britain During the Great War

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Jeffrey Reznick Martin Hargreaves

Healing the Nation

Soldiers and the Culture of Caregiving in Britain During the Great War

Jeffrey Reznick, Martin Hargreaves, Penny Summerfield , Peter Gatrell

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Manchester University Press
30 November 2011

British & Irish history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; First World War

Series: Cultural History of Modern War

Healing the nation is a study of caregiving during the Great War, exploring life behind the lines for ordinary British soldiers who served on the Western Front. Using a variety of literary, artistic, and architectural evidence, this study draws connections between the war machine and the wartime culture of caregiving: the product of medical knowledge and procedure, social relationships and health institutions that informed experiences of rest, recovery and rehabilitation in sites administered by military and voluntary-aid authorities. Rest huts, hospitals, and rehabilitation centres served not only as means to sustain manpower and support for the war but also as distinctive sites where soldiers, their caregivers and the public attempted to make sense of the conflict and the unprecedented change it wrought. Revealing aspects of wartime life that have received little attention, this study shows that Britain's 'generation of 1914' was a group bound as much by a comradeship of healing as by a comradeship of the trenches.

The author has used an extensive collection of illustrations in his discussion, and the book will make fascinating reading for students and specialists in the history of war, medicine and gender studies. -- .

By: Jeffrey Reznick
Index by: Martin Hargreaves
Series edited by: Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: NEW IN PAPERBACK
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 227g
ISBN: 9780719069758
ISBN 10: 0719069750
Series: Cultural History of Modern War
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 30 November 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of figures Preface 1. Soldiers and the culture of caregiving in Britain during the Great War 2. Homes away from home: Rest huts and war-weary soldiers 3. Havens for heroes: Life in two military hospitals 4. Hospital magazines: Writing about wartime recovery/recovering writing about wartime 5. Wartime convalescence: The case of the convalescent blues 6. Reclaiming the maimed at Shepherd’s Bush Military Hospital, London 7. Conclusion: Memories, legacies and landmarks Select bibliography Index -- .

Jeffrey S. Reznick is Deputy Chief of the History of Medicine Division at the U.S. National Library of Medicine, a member of Birmingham's Centre for First World War Studies and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. [for the dust jacket]: Jeffrey S. Reznick is Executive Director and Senior Research Fellow of the Orthotic and Prosthetic Assistance Fund. A native of Rochester, New York, he received his undergraduate education at the University of Rochester and holds a doctorate in history from Emory University. He lives in Washington, DC. This is his first book. To contact the author, please email jreznick@aotf.org.

Reviews for Healing the Nation: Soldiers and the Culture of Caregiving in Britain During the Great War

'Healing the nation is an extraordinary exploration of how following the devastation of World War One Britain came to terms with the war wounded and how they came to understand themselves. Rarely has a study plumbed the subtleties of the self-image of the wounded victors. Any reader interested in the culture of victory as seen in the medical and cultural of those damaged in war will learn much from Jeffrey Reznick's admirable book.' Professor Sander L. Gilman, St. Anne's College, Oxford 'Reznick tells a fascinating story with verve and an eye for the big picture. This book makes a substantial contribution to war medicine and the cultural history of war. It has never been done in such a lively and innovative way before.' Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck College -- .