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Veterans --- Disabled veterans --- Military pensions --- Services for --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Medical care --- Education --- United States.

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This book explores military patients' experiences of frontline medical evacuation, war surgery, and the social world of military hospitals during the First World War. The proximity of the front and the colossal numbers of wounded created greater public awareness of the impact of the war than had been seen in previous conflicts, with serious political consequences. Frequently referred to as 'our wounded', the central place of the soldier in society, as a symbol of the war's shifting meaning, drew contradictory responses of compassion, heroism, and censure. Wounds also stirred romantic and sexual responses. This volume reveals the paradoxical situation of the increasing political demand levied on citizen soldiers concurrent with the rise in medical humanitarianism and war-related charitable voluntarism. The physical gestures and poignant sounds of the suffering men reached across the classes, giving rise to convictions about patient rights, which at times conflicted with the military's pragmatism. Why, then, did patients represent military medicine, doctors and nurses in a negative light? This book listens to the voices of wounded soldiers, placing their personal experience of pain within the social, cultural, and political contexts of military medical institutions. The author reveals how the wounded and disabled found culturally creative ways to express their pain, negotiate power relations, manage systemic tensions, and enact forms of 'soft resistance' against the societal and military expectations of masculinity when confronted by men in pain. The volume concludes by considering the way the state ascribed social and economic values on the body parts of disabled soldiers though the pension system.

World War, 1914-1918 --- Medicine, Military --- Physicians --- Military pensions --- Medical care --- Histor --- History --- Great Britain. --- World War (1914-1918) --- 1914 - 1918 --- Grossbritannien.

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"In the popular imagination, the notion of military medicine prior to the twentieth century is dominated by images of brutal ignorance, superstition and indifference. In an age before the introduction of anaesthetics, antibiotics and the sterilisation of instruments, it is perhaps unsurprising that such a stereotyped view has developed, but to what degree is it correct? Whilst it is undoubtedly true that by modern standards, the medical care provided in previous centuries was crude and parochial, it would be wrong to think that serious attempts were not made by national bodies to provide care for those injured in the military conflicts of the past. In this ground breaking study, it is argued that both sides involved in the civil wars that ravaged the British Isles during the mid seventeenth century made concerted efforts to provide medical care for their sick and wounded troops. Through the use of extensive archival sources, Dr Gruber von Arni has pieced together the history of the welfare provided by both Parliamentarian and Royalist causes, and analyses the effectiveness of the systems they set up."--Provided by publisher.

Medicine, Military --- Military nursing --- Disabled veterans --- Military pensions --- Veterans' families --- History --- History --- Care --- History --- History --- History --- Great Britain --- Great Britain --- History --- Medical care. --- History

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Post-traumatic stress disorder --- Disabled veterans --- Military pensions --- Military compensation --- Naval pensions --- Pensions, Military --- Pensions, Naval --- Soldiers --- Veterans' benefits --- Veterans' pensions --- War pensions --- Pensions --- Disabled sailors --- Disabled soldiers --- Service-disabled veterans --- Veterans, Disabled --- People with disabilities --- Veterans --- Mental health --- Evaluation. --- United States. --- DVA --- D.V.A. --- VA --- V.A. (Veterans Affairs)