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The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe

By Stefanos Geroulanos, Todd Meyers

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About the book

The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the same wound lead one soldier to die but allow another to recover?In The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe, Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers uncover a fascinating story of how medical scientists came to conceptualize the body as an integrated yet brittle whole. Responding to the harrowing experience of the Great War, the medic...Show more

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9780226556451

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2018

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1

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The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe

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Hardcover

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