Description
Book SynopsisDrawing readers into a critical debate about the level of responsibility America bears for wounded service members, Burdens of War is a unique and moving case study.
Trade ReviewScholars, health-care providers, policy makers, and general audiences should be highly interested in the book.
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Armed Forces & SocietyThis book is thoughtful, well researched, and timely. It is little wonder Adler earned the Bancroft Award for the dissertation version. Burdens of War will long be an invaluable resource, particularly for those studying the role of the interwar years in creating modern America.
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Journal of Military HistoryAdler's book deals more with the beginnings of veterans' health care than its current state and will appeal to those with a historical interest in the program. The criticisms of today, she notes, are not so different from those voiced a hundred years ago.
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Health AffairsAdler has produced a worthwhile work, one that helps us understand how America built its own National Health Service but for only one class of patients.
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H-DiploThis is a most welcoming contribution on the history of a U.S. service... The book expands the debate...
—Alain Touwaide,
Doody's Reviews[A] highly detailed and well-crafted account of the political dimension behind health care.
—Bobby A. Wintermute,
Business History ReviewAdler's
Burdens of War is a must-read for specialists and nonspecialists alike, and is one of the most important books on veteran policy of the twenty-first century
—Evan Sullivan,
H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Abbreviations Used in the Text
Introduction
1. An Extra-Hazardous Occupation
2. A Stupendous Task
3. War Is Hell but after Is "Heller"
4. The Debt We Owe Them
5. Administrative Geometry
6. I Never Did Feel Well Again
7. State Medicine
Conclusion
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index
