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Beth Linker
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Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America
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War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America
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2011
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6 editions
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Civil Disabilities: Citizenship, Membership, and Belonging
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2014
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5 editions
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War's Waste
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published
2014
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“Relying on the breadwinner ideal of manhood, those in favor of pension reform began to define disability not by a man’s missing limbs or by any other physical incapacity (as the Civil War pension system had done), but rather by his will (or lack thereof) to work. Seen this way, economic dependency—often linked overtly and metaphorically to womanliness—came to be understood as the real handicap that thwarted the full physical recovery of the veteran and the fiscal strength of the nation.”
― War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America
― War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America
“Why? Because the ethic of rehabilitation, established almost a century ago, lives on.”
― War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America
― War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America
“One might think that as a country almost always involved in a military operation of one kind or another, the United States would be accustomed to and prepared for injured soldiers coming home. Yet this is not the case. Conflicts during the twenty years prior to Iraq (Grenada, the Gulf War, Somalia, and the Balkans) produced relatively few US causalities and thus never stressed the home front medical system as the current war has. Not since the Vietnam War has Walter Reed seen thousands of returning wounded soldiers, some needing months, if not years, of medical care.8”
― War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America
― War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America
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