Reconstructing the body : classicism, modernism, and the First World War / Ana Carden-Coyne.

  • Carden-Coyne, Ana.
Date:
2009
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Physical description

xiii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Reconstructing civilization in post-war culture -- Culture shock : trauma, pleasure, and visual memory -- Monumental classicism : healing the western body -- The sexual reconstruction of men -- The 'golden age of woman'-- Performing the new civilization -- Healing and forgetting.

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    History of Medicine
    VN.U.AA9
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ISBN

  • 9780199546466
  • 0199546460