What is it about?
This book looks at how the industrial and manpower pressures of WWI fundamentally changed medical care and technology for disabled soldiers. It also examines how these innovations in medical care for wounded soldiers transformed the way that society viewed and interacted with disabled persons.
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Why is it important?
This book sheds important light on how the medical innovations of warfare can have long-lasting rippling effects on social structures and ideas -- both positive and negative. It also sheds light on the experiences of disabled soldiers -- a population that is often overlooked in studies of war and military affairs.
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This is an important book for understanding twentieth century Germany just before the Nazi takeover of power. It also is one of the very few studies that looks at Germany's disabled soldiers and how their experiences shaped Germany during and after WWI.
Professor Heather R Perry
UNC Charlotte
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This page is a summary of: Recycling the disabled, August 2014, Manchester University Press,
DOI: 10.7228/manchester/9780719089244.001.0001.
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