Paying with Their Bodies : American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran /

Christian Bagge, an Iraq War veteran, lost both his legs in a roadside bomb attack on his Humvee in 2006. Months after the accident, outfitted with sleek new prosthetic legs, he jogged alongside President Bush for a photo op at the White House. The photograph served many functions, one of them being...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kinder, John M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Temas:
Disabled veterans - United States - History.
Disabled veterans > Rehabilitation > United States > History.
Disabled veterans > United States > History.
War and society.
HISTORY / General.
war, disability, veterans, wounded warriors, injury, wound, iraq, afghanistan, casualties, technology, prosthetics, duty, sacrifice, violence, loyalty, patriotism, military, soldiers, battle, mutilation, suffering, nonfiction, sociology, politics, political science, history, medicine, anxiety, ptsd, mental health, trauma, peace, memory, memorialization, community, organization, brotherhood, masculinity, strength, gender, rehabilitation.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • I. The industrialization of injury
  • 1. "to bind up the nation's wounds" how the disabled veteran became a problem one
  • 2. "the horror for which we are waiting" anxieties of injury in world war i
  • II. The aftermath of battle
  • 3. "thinking ahead of the crippled years" carrying on in an age of normalcy
  • 4. "the cripple ceases to be" the rehabilitation movement in great war America
  • III. Mobilizing injury
  • 5. "for the living dead i work and pray" veterans' groups and the benefits of buddyhood
  • 6. "for the mem'ry of warriors wracked with pain" disabled doughboys and American memory
  • 7. "what is wrong with this picture?" the disabled soldier in interwar peace culture
  • IV. Old battles, new wars
  • 8. "the shiny plating of prestige" disabled veterans in the American century
  • Epilogue. Toward a new veteranology
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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