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War's Waste (Paperback)
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With US soldiers stationed around the world and engaged in multiple
conflicts, Americans will be forced for the foreseeable future to
come to terms with those permanently disabled in battle. At the
moment, we accept rehabilitation as the proper social and cultural
response to the wounded, swiftly returning injured combatants to
their civilian lives. But this was not always the case, as Beth
Linker reveals in War's Waste. Linker explains how, before entering
World War I, the United States sought a way to avoid the enormous
cost of providing injured soldiers with pensions, which it had done
since the Revolutionary War. Emboldened by their faith in the new
social and medical sciences, reformers pushed rehabilitation as a
means to "rebuild" disabled soldiers, relieving the nation of a
monetary burden and easing the decision to enter the Great War.
Linker's narrative moves from the professional development of
orthopedic surgeons and physical therapists to the curative
workshops, or hospital spaces where disabled soldiers learned how
to repair automobiles as well as their own artificial limbs. The
story culminates in the postwar establishment of the Veterans
Administration, one of the greatest legacies to come out of the
First World War.
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