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Healing the nation is a study of caregiving during the Great War,
exploring life behind the lines for ordinary British soldiers who
served on the Western Front. Using a variety of literary, artistic,
and architectural evidence, this study draws connections between
the war machine and the wartime culture of caregiving: the product
of medical knowledge and procedure, social relationships and health
institutions that informed experiences of rest, recovery and
rehabilitation in sites administered by military and voluntary-aid
authorities. Rest huts, hospitals, and rehabilitation centres
served not only as means to sustain manpower and support for the
war but also as distinctive sites where soldiers, their caregivers
and the public attempted to make sense of the conflict and the
unprecedented change it wrought. Revealing aspects of wartime life
that have received little attention, this study shows that
Britain's 'generation of 1914' was a group bound as much by a
comradeship of healing as by a comradeship of the trenches. The
author has used an extensive collection of illustrations in his
discussion, and the book will make fascinating reading for students
and specialists in the history of war, medicine and gender studies.
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John Galsworthy -- recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for literature
-- was one of the best-selling authors of the twentieth century.
His literary reputation overshadows what he achieved during the
Great War, which was his humanitarian support for and his
compositions about soldiers disabled in the conflict. "John
Galsworthy and Disabled Soldiers of the Great War" represents the
most comprehensive study published to date about this literature of
the "war to end all wars." It makes available for the first time in
a single edition the most significant of his compositions about
disabled soldiers, recovering them from scholarly neglect,
examining their value as historical documents and connecting them
to iconic images and artifacts of the period. This study will be of
interest to a wide academic audience, to readers interested in the
history of the Great War, to policymakers associated with veterans'
issues, and to medical professionals in the fields of physical
medicine and rehabilitation.
John Galsworthy - recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for literature
- was one of the best-selling authors of the twentieth century. His
literary reputation overshadows what he achieved during the Great
War, which was his humanitarian support for and his compositions
about soldiers disabled in the conflict. John Galsworthy and
disabled soldiers of the Great War represents the most
comprehensive study published to date about this literature of the
'war to end all wars'. It makes available for the first time in a
single edition the most significant of his compositions about
disabled soldiers, recovering them from scholarly neglect,
examining their value as historical documents and connecting them
to iconic images and artifacts of the period. This study will be of
interest to a wide academic audience, to readers interested in the
history of the Great War, to policymakers associated with veterans'
issues, and to medical professionals in the fields of physical
medicine and rehabilitation. -- .
Healing the Nation is a study of caregiving during the Great War,
exploring life behind the lines for ordinary British soldiers who
served on the Western Front. Using a variety of literary, artistic,
and architectural evidence, this study draws connections between
the war machine and the wartime culture of caregiving: the product
of medical knowledge and procedure, social relationships and health
institutions that informed experiences of rest, recovery and
rehabilitation in sites administered by military and voluntary-aid
authorities. Rest huts, hospitals, and rehabilitation centres
served not only as means to sustain manpower and support for the
war but also as distinctive sites where soldiers, their caregivers
and the public attempted to make sense of the conflict and the
unprecedented change it wrought. Revealing aspects of wartime life
that have received little attention, this study shows that
Britain's 'generation of 1914' was a group bound as much by a
comradeship of healing as by a comradeship of the trenches. The
author has used an extensive collection of illustrations in his
discussion, and the book will make fascinating reading for students
and specialists in the history of war, medicine and gender studies.
-- .
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