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Paying with their bodies : American war and the problem of the disabled veteran / John M. Kinder.

Kinder, John M. (John Matthew), 1975- (Author).

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ISBN: 9780226420714
Physical Description: viii, 358 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Edition: Paperback edition.
Publisher: Chicago ; The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Copyright: ©2015.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- The industrialization of injury: Thomas H. Graham -- "To bind up the nation's wounds": how the disabled veteran became a problem: Arthur Guy Empey -- "The horror for which we are waiting": anxieties of injury in World War I -- The aftermath of battle: Elsie Ferguson in "Hero Land" -- "Thinking ahead of the crippled years": carrying on in an age of normalcy -- Sunday at the hippodrome -- "The cripple ceases to be": the rehabilitation movement in Great War America -- Mobilizing injury -- The sweet bill -- "For the living dead I work and pray": veterans' groups and the benefits of buddyhood -- Forget-me-not day -- "For the mem'ry of warriors wracked with pain": disabled doughboys and American memory: James M. Kirwin -- "What is wrong with this picture?": disabled veterans in interwar peace culture: Harold Russell -- "The shiny plate of prestige": disabled veterans in the American century: Tammy Duckworth -- Epilogue: Toward a new veteranology.