Recycling the Disabled - (Disability History) by Heather Perry (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Examines the "medical organisation" of Imperial Germany for total war<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This book is a critical examination of the relationships between war, medicine, and the pressures of modernisation in the waning stages of the German Empire. Through her examination of wartime medical and scientific innovations, government, and military archives, museum and health exhibitions, philanthropic works, consumer culture, and popular media, historian Heather Perry reveals how the pressures of modern industrial warfare did more than simply transform medical care for injured soldiers - they fundamentally re-shaped how Germans perceived the disabled body. As the empire faced an ever more desperate labour shortage, military, and government leaders increasingly turned to medical authorities for assistance in the re-organisation of German society for total war. Thus, more than a simple history of military medicine or veteran care, Recycling the disabled tells the story of the medicalisation of modern warfare in Imperial Germany and the lasting consequences of this shift in German society.<br /> <br /> This book is ideally suited for scholars and students of the cultural history of modern war, the social history of medicine, the history of disability, the cultural history of technology, and the history of modern Germany. It could also be used in courses in disability studies, science technology and society, military studies, medical ethics, and body studies.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>This book is a critical examination of the relationships between war, medicine, and the pressures of modernisation in the waning stages of the German Empire. Through her examination of wartime medical and scientific innovations, government, and military archives, museum and health exhibitions, philanthropic works, consumer culture, and popular media, historian Heather Perry reveals how the pressures of modern industrial warfare did more than simply transform medical care for injured soldiers - they fundamentally re-shaped how Germans perceived the disabled body. As the empire faced an ever more desperate labour shortage, military, and government leaders increasingly turned to medical authorities for assistance in the re-organisation of German society for total war. Thus, more than a simple history of military medicine or veteran care, Recycling the disabled tells the story of the medicalisation of modern warfare in Imperial Germany and the lasting consequences of this shift in German society. This book is ideally suited for scholars and students of the cultural history of modern war, the social history of medicine, the history of disability, the cultural history of technology, and the history of modern Germany. It could also be used in courses in disability studies, science technology and society, military studies, medical ethics, and body studies.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'Heather Perry's Recycling the Disabled is a welcome and much needed addition to the historiography of Germany's First World War experience. For a non-expert in the new field of Disability History in specific and medical history in general, this book serves as an excellent entry point and a fine addition to any collection on German society in the grip of Total War.' - Brendan Murphy, Department of History, University of Sheffield, June 2016 'This book is an important contribution to the historiography of World War I and should hold particular interest for historians of medicine and of technology.' Lisa J. Pruitt, Middle Tennessee State University, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 90, Number 4, Winter 2016 'This book is a useful part of a growing literature on rehabilitation in World War I.' Sanders Marble, San Antonio Texas, German History Table, Volume 35, Issue 4 'This is an important book...very informative and makes an excellent contribution to ourcollective knowledge.' Emmeline Burdett, University College London, H-Disability, November 2017<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><br>Heather R. Perry is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte<br>
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