The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War

by Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers

Book Overview

The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the same wound lead one soldier to die but allow another to recover?

In The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe, Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers uncover a fascinating story of how medical scientists came to conceptualize the body as an integrated yet brittle whole. Responding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022655659X
• ISBN13: 9780226556598
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"