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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Buxton, Hilary R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.