Disabled empire : the colonial body in First World War Britain /
"Explores the minute interactions between military servicemen and medical caregivers during World War I to tell a broader story about race, colonialism, labor, and global health. Disabled Empire examines how imperial precedents and racial ideologies shaped the medical treatments that the Britis...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2026.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Bodies for war : recruiting and healing the colonial serviceman
- Stomachs : nutrition, deficiency disease, and multiracial rationing
- Three nerves : mental health and the ethnicization of military psychiatry
- Bones : rehabilitation and the project of imperial re-membering
- Bodies in the aftermath : pensions, petitions, and protest
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.