War's waste : rehabilitation in World War I America / Beth Linker.

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

291 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references ( p. 249-275) and index.

The roots of rehabilitation -- The problem of the pensioner -- Reconstructing disabled soldiers -- A new female force -- Maximalist medicine at Walter Reed -- The limb lab and the engineering of manly bodies -- Propaganda and patient protest -- Rehabilitating the industrial army -- Walter Reed, then and now.