...This chapter examines the efforts of businesses to market masculinity to disabled American veterans. Beginning with the Civil War—a conflict that left nearly a million ex-servicemen with war wounds permanent injuries—it shows how commercial interests from prosthetics makers to car companies...

... Merrick Joseph prosthetics facial feedback hypothesis In Parnethesis Roby’s Room World War I trench warfare emotions war wounds social interaction cadre For David Jones of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, World War I was a war fought on frozen feet and legs, half underground in flooded trenches...

... work as a surgeon treating Iraqi war wounded at the AUMC, describes how powerful elites determine the political value of a war wound, influencing what a person’s injury means to the country as a whole and hence, the kind of treatment the Iraqi government is willing to sponsor. As such, the chapter...

...Privation and disease have mainly killed soldiers until very recently. Now that enemy action predominates, faster and better control of bleeding and infection before and during evacuation spares ever more lives today. This chapter focuses on psychological war wounds, placing them in the context...

... such tendencies in their subordinates. Women helped to shape martial male identity by admiring war wounds instead of the militia and selecting suitors who demonstrated maturity and responsibility. Carter Louise Enlightenment Hichberger J W M khaki fever masculinity scarlet fever uniform wars Woolacott...

... of Antwerp by mutinous Spanish soldiers. Examining A Larum in the context of Elizabethan texts on the care of war wounds, it examines the play's staging of its main character, a wounded lieutenant, identified in speech prefixes as “Stump,” who appears to be afflicted with gangrene and who...