Disabled veterans in history
By: David A. Gerber, editor.
Contributors: Gerber, David A., 1944-.
Series: Corporealities
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Disabled veterans.; Disabled Persons.; Veterans.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Finding disabled veterans in history / David A. Gerber; title: Philoctetes in historical context / Martha Edwards; title: Heroes and misfits : the troubled social reintegration of disabled veterans of World War II in The best years of our lives / David A. Gerber; title: Bitterness, rage, and redemption : Hollywood constructs the disabled Vietnam veteran / Martin F. Norden; title: Disabled veterans and the state in early modern England / Geoffrey L. Hudson; title: "A sacred debt" : veterans and the state in revolutionary and Napoleonic France / Isser Woloch; title: From individual trauma to national policy : tracking the uses of Civil War veteran medical records / Robert I. Goler and Michael G. Rhode; title: Work-therapy and the disabled British soldier in Great Britain in the First World War : the case of Shepherd's Bush Military Hospital, London / Jeffrey S. Reznick; title: "Empty sleeves and wooden pegs" : disabled Confederate veterans in image and reality / R.B. Rosenburg; title: Fifty years of pain : the history of Austrian disabled veterans after 1945 / Gregory Weeks; title: Disabled Russian war veterans : surviving the collapse of the Soviet Union / Ethel Dunn; title: Nomads in blue : disabled veterans and alcohol at the National Home / James Marten; title: Will to work : disabled veterans in Britain and Germany after the First World War / Deborah Cohen; title: Lieutenant John Counsell and the development of medical rehabilitation and disability policy in Canada / Mary Tremblay.