The Politics of Wounds: Pain, Disability and Society 1914-1925

《创伤的政治学》提出了这样一个问题：在战争中受伤意味着什么？历史如何帮助我们评估这一重大冲突后果的遗产？它将第一次世界大战视为一场工业化和医疗化的战争，创造了新的系统来治疗英国公民士兵的大规模受伤。它调查了这些系统如何从根本上塑造了医疗服务和军事政策，对士兵，平民和康复从业者产生了影响。这本书揭示了一个重要程度的政治立场，关于国家将如何照顾其受伤的男子。这涉及到最高层的政治争吵、调查委员会、提高平民和部队士气的媒体宣传运动，以及政治家、军事人员和医务人员（正规人员和民间顾问）之间的幕后冲突。人道主义医学和福利机构也以自己的议程动员受伤的身体，影响社会和经济价值观，塑造公众对残疾人的态度。男子受伤的结果往往是贫穷和社会混乱，而家庭必须满足国家规定和福利支持之间的财政和情感差距。这本书抵制受伤者作为受害者或英雄的神话，探讨了个人经历的复杂性，包括如何处理疼痛，以及恢复和贫困，以及受伤后男性身份的重建。这本书揭示了未开发的来源，从职级和文件结合官方文件;虽然战争的故事往往是从一个强大的机构的角度来讲述，这本书突出受伤和残疾人的声音。第二个重要线索是阐明受伤的身体的社会，经济和政治价值，并考虑自第一次世界大战以来的连续性和变化，特别是在政策，养老金和公众态度方面。第一次世界大战如何塑造了军事医学的条件以及当今创伤和残疾的社会意义？伤口的政治学提供了一种新的方法，将军事和医学史的研究与战争的社会和文化史结合在一起，并借鉴了对受伤身体的现象学分析“重要”（巴特勒），以及对社会关系和制度行为的人类学和社会学研究。它还将历史分析引入关于体现和身份的理论讨论中，并借鉴残疾研究来质疑战时残疾的政治含义。该项目将在理解战争对伤员的影响方面产生重大进展，在军事医学，政治辩论，人道主义福利，以及公众对战争残疾人的态度。它将对来自一系列学科的学者以及公共医学和军事政策的当代从业者有重要意义。这本书在英国历史的一个重要关头提供了及时的分析，当过去的故事可以通过社会亲密的政治历史为我们更好地理解战争的后果提供重要的教训。

The Politics of Wounds asks what does it mean to be wounded in war - and how can history help us to assess the legacies of this significant outcome of conflict? It examines WW1 as an industrialised and medicalised war that created new systems to treat the mass wounding of British citizen soldiers. It investigates how these systems fundamentally shaped medical services and military policies regarding the disabled that have impacted on soldiers, civilians and practitioners of rehabilitation ever since. This book uncovers a significant degree of political contestation about how the State would care for its wounded men. This involved political wrangling at the highest level, commissions of enquiry, media propaganda campaigns for civilian and troop morale, as well as behind-the-scenes conflicts between politicians, military personnel and medical practitioners (both regulars and civilian consultants). Humanitarian medicine and welfare agencies also mobilised the wounded body with its own agendas, influencing social and economic values that shaped public attitudes to disabled men. The outcome of wounding for men was often poverty and social dislocation, and it was families that had to meet the financial and emotional gap between the state's provisions and welfare support. Resisting the myths of the wounded as either victims or heroes, this book explores the complexity of individual experiences, including how pain was dealt with, alongside recovery and poverty, and how masculine embodied identity was reconstructed after wounding. This book brings to light untapped sources from the rank and file in conjunction with official documents; while the story of war is often told from a powerful institutional perspective, this book highlights wounded and disabled men's voices. A second significant thread is to illuminate the social, economic and political value of the wounded body, and to consider continuity and change since WW1, especially in regard to policies, pensions and public attitudes. How did the First World War shape the conditions of military medicine and the social meaning of wounds and disablement in the present day?The Politics of Wounds offers a new methodology, bringing together the study of military and medical history with the social and cultural history of war, and drawing upon phenomenological analysis of the wounded body 'that matters' (Butler), as well as anthropological and sociological studies into social relations and institutional behaviour. It also imports historical analysis into theoretical discussions about embodiment and identity, and draws significantly upon disability studies to question the political implications of disablement in wartime.This project will produce a significant advance in the comprehension of the impact of war on the wounded, on the social and economic value of the wounded body in military medicine, in political debate, in humanitarian welfare, and in public attitudes to the war disabled. It will be of significant use for academics from a range of disciplines, as well as contemporary practitioners of public medicine and military policy. This book offers a timely analysis at an important juncture in British history, when the stories of the past can offer important lessons for our greater comprehension of the consequence of war through a socially intimate political history.