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Title:
Paying with their bodies : American war and the problem of the disabled veteran / John M. Kinder.
Author:
Kinder, John M. (John Matthew), 1975- author.
Publication Information:
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Call Number:
UB363 .K56 2015
ISBN:
9780226210094

9780226210124
Physical Description:
viii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
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 -- Old battles, new wars: Harold Russell -- "The shiny plate of prestige": disabled veterans in the American century -- Tammy Duckworth -- Epilogue: Toward a new veteranology.
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