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Life and Limb

Life and Limb


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The contemporary perspectives - fiction, first-hand accounts, reportage and photographs - found in the pages of this collection give a unique insight into the experiences and suffering of those affected by the American Civil War. The essays and recollections detail some of the earliest
attempts by medical professionals to understand and help the wounded, and look at how writers and poets were influenced by their own involvement as nurses, combatants and observers. So alongside the medical observations of figures such as Silas Weir Mitchell and William Keen, you'll find memoirs of
writers including Louisa May Alcott, Ambrose Bierce and Walt Whitman. By presenting the wide range of frequently traumatic experiences by writers, medical staff, and of course the often ignored common foot soldiers on both sides, this volume will complement the older emphasis on military history and
will appeal to readers of the evolution of medicine, of the literature the time, of social anthropology, and of the whole complex issue of how the war was represented and debated from many different perspectives. While a century and a half of developments in medicine, social care and science mean
that the level of support and technology available to amputees is now incomparable to that in the mid-nineteenth century, the insights into the lives and thoughts of those devastated by psychological traumas, complex emotions and difficulties in adjusting to life after limb loss remain just as
relevant today. Phenomena explored in the book, such as 'Phantom Limb Syndrome', continue to be the subject of medical and academic research in the twenty-first century.

About the Author:
David Seed is Professor of English at the University of Liverpool. He is the editor of (with Susan Castillo) American Travel and Empire (LUP, 2009) and author of Cinematic Fictions (LUP, 2009).
Stephen C. Kenny is Lecturer in 19th- and 20th-century North American History at the University of Liverpool.
Chris Williams is Research and KE Impact Officer at the University of Liverpool.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781781382509
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press
  • Depth: 14
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Perspectives on the American Civil War
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1781382506
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: 1
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 435 gr


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