After war : the weight of life at Walter Reed / Zoë H. Wool.

Author/Creator:

Wool, Zoë Hamilton, author.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.

Series:

Critical global health.
Critical global health

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (265 p.)

Subjects:

Soldiers -- Wounds and injuries -- United States.
Disabled veterans -- Medical care -- United States.
Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

English

Summary:

Zoë H. Wool explores how the most severely injured veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars rehabilitating at Walter Reed Medical Center-whether recovering from losing a limb or sustaining a traumatic brain injury-struggle to build some kind of ordinary life in a situation that is anything but ordinary.

Contents:

The extra/ordinary atmosphere of Walter Reed
A present history of fragments
The economy of patriotism
On movement
Intimate attachments and the securing of life.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8223-7509-5

OCLC:

1139382939

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