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Bodies of Work examines the profound impact of the First World War on the development of rehabilitation as both a medical practice and social policy. Julie M. Powell investigates how the unprecedented scale of combat injuries and disability forced medical professionals, governments, and societies to innovate new approaches to treatment and recovery.
The book traces the transnational exchange of rehabilitation techniques, technologies, and ideas across Europe and beyond during and after the war. Powell reveals how soldiers’ bodies became sites of experimentation and transformation, where prosthetics, physical therapy, occupational training, and psychological treatment converged. She demonstrates how wartime rehabilitation efforts established frameworks that would influence disability care and social welfare for generations.
Through detailed case studies and archival research, this work illuminates the complex relationships between warfare, medicine, and society, showing how the crisis of mass disability reshaped modern understandings of injury, recovery, and citizenship.
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