After war : the weight of life at Walter Reed /

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Zoë H. Wool explores how the most severely injured veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars rehabilitating at Walter Reed Medical Center-whether recovering from losing a limb or sustaining a traumatic brain injury-struggle to build some kind of ordinary life in a situation that is anything but ord...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wool, Zoë Hamilton (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Series:Critical global health.
Subjects:
Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Soldiers > Wounds and injuries > United States.
Disabled veterans > Medical care > United States.
Invalides de guerre > Soins médicaux > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Disabled veterans > Medical care
Soldiers > Wounds and injuries
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The extra/ordinary atmosphere of Walter Reed
  • A present history of fragments
  • The economy of patriotism
  • On movement
  • Intimate attachments and the securing of life.

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