Saturday, January 10, 2004

9:30–11:30 a.m.

79. Militarizing the Body: Prosthetics, Propaganda, and Medical Politics in Wartime Europe and the United States, 1914–19
Marriott, Hoover Room

Chair: K. Walter Hickel, National Library of Medicine
Papers:

Picture Perfect: Representation, Medicine, and Consensus in Wartime America, 1918–19
Beth O’Donnell Linker, Yale University

Recycling the Disabled: Medicine’s Contribution to “Total Mobilization” in World War I Germany
Heather R. Perry, Indiana University

The Cause of Physical Reconstruction: Men, Media, and Materiel in World War I Britain
Jeffrey S. Reznick, Orthotic and Prosthetic Assistance Fund
Comment: Roger James Cooter, University College London