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Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed
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Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7509-8
Publication date:
2015
Book Chapter
A Present History of Fragments
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Published:November 2015
This chapter assembles a newspaper archive to tell a public history of both the injured U.S. soldier body and Walter Reed, a key site from which that image has been projected since World War I. Certain themes recur uncannily over the century of its operation: the geographical and social dislocations of U.S. wars abroad; the possibility that the violence of war can be overcome by the technological promise of rehabilitation; the problematic and essential nature of the injured soldier’s masculinity; the rendering of war injuries as affecting both the body and the mind; the simultaneous expectations that soldiers’ bodies belong...
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