Date of Award
1-1-2020
Language
English
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
College/School/Department
Department of History
Content Description
1 online resource (x, 199) : illustrations (some color)
Dissertation/Thesis Chair
Richard S Fogarty
Committee Members
Richard Hamm, Kori Graves, John M Kinder
Keywords
Disability, Gender, Senses, Social Sciences, War, World War I, World War, 1914-1918, Disabled veterans, Senses and sensation, Sensation
Subject Categories
Disability Studies | Military History | United States History
Abstract
This study looks at how disabled American soldier-patients and the US Army used the senses as tools of rehabilitation after the Great War. Contemporaries argued that, when the hundreds of thousands of American soldiers came home wounded or sick after the Great War, the men needed to make good. The phrase “making good” meant that sacrifice in the war was not enough, and veterans had to become socially and economically independent, and return to heterosexual relationships. In an effort to return to normalcy, the US Army relied on rehabilitation, which aimed to medically and socially re-integrate the men into society.
Recommended Citation
Sullivan, Evan Patrick, "Making good : World War I, disability, and the senses in American rehabilitation" (2020). Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024). 2589.
https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/legacy-etd/2589