Contents
Preface to the Enlarged and Revised Edition: The Continuing Relevance of the Study of Disabled Veterans
Introduction: Finding Disabled Veterans in History / David A. Gerber
I. Representation
Philoctetes in Historical Context / Martha Edwards
Heroes and Misfits: The Troubled Social Reintegration of Disabled Veterans in The Best Years of Our Lives / David A. Gerber
Bitterness, Rage, and Redemption: Hollywood Constructs the Disabled Vietnam Veteran / Martin F. Norden
II. Public Policy
Disabled Veterans and the State in Early Modern England / Geoffrey L. Hudson
“A Sacred Debt”: Veterans and the State in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France / Isser Woloch
From Individual Trauma to National Policy: Tracking the Uses of Civil War Veteran Medical Records / Robert I. Goler and Michael G. Rhode
Work-Therapy and the Disabled British Soldier in Great Britain in the First World War: The Case of Shepherd’s Bush Military Hospital, London / Jeffrey S. Reznick
“Empty Sleeves and Wooden Pegs”: Disabled Confederate Veterans in Image and Reality / R. B. Rosenburg
Fifty Years of Pain: The History of Austrian Disabled Veterans after 1945 / Gregory Weeks
Disabled Russian War Veterans: Surviving the Collapse of the Soviet Union / Ethel Dunn
III. Living with a Disability: Adjustments and Maladjustments
Nomads in Blue: Disabled Veterans and Alcohol at the National Home / James Marten
Will to Work: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany after the First World War / Deborah Cohen
Lieutenant John Counsell and the Development of Medical Rehabilitation and Disability Policy in Canada / Mary Tremblay
Post-Modern American Heroism: Anti-War War Heroes, Survivor Heroes, and the Eclipse of Traditional Warrior Values / David A. Gerber
Afterword: A Challenge to Historians / Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D.
Contributors