Recycling the Disabled
Subtitle: Army, Medicine and Modernity in WWI Germany
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780719089244
Subjects: World war, 1914-1918, germany; Veterans
Description: 'Recycling the Disabled' 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.