Recycling the Disabled: Army, Medicine, and Modernity in Wwi Germany

by Heather Perry

Recycling the disabled: Army, medicine, and modernity in WWI Germany examines the 'medical organisation' of Imperial Germany for total war. Faced with mounting casualties and a growing labour shortage, German military, industrial, and governmental officials turned to medical experts for assistance in the total mobilisation of society. Through an investigation of developments in orthopaedic medicine, prosthetic technology, military medical organisation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719089247
• ISBN13: 9780719089244
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"