Recycling the Disabled

Army, Medicine, and Modernity in WWI Germany

Heather Perry, Heather R. Perry, Walton Schalick

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Manchester University Press
03 January 2017

Disability: social aspects; History of medicine

Series: Disability History

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. -- .

By: Heather Perry, Heather R. Perry
Series edited by: Walton Schalick
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 286g
ISBN: 9781526106773
ISBN 10: 1526106779
Series: Disability History
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 03 January 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Heather R. Perry is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Reviews for Recycling the Disabled: Army, Medicine, and Modernity in WWI Germany

'Heather Perry's Recycling the Disabled is a welcome and much needed addition to the historiography of Germany's First World War experience. For a non-expert in the new field of Disability History in specific and medical history in general, this book serves as an excellent entry point and a fine addition to any collection on German society in the grip of Total War.' - Brendan Murphy, Department of History, University of Sheffield, June 2016 'This book is an important contribution to the historiography of World War I and should hold particular interest for historians of medicine and of technology.' Lisa J. Pruitt, Middle Tennessee State University, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 90, Number 4, Winter 2016 -- .