{"product_id":"rehabilitating-bodies-health-history-and-the-american-civil-war-9780812237481","title":"Rehabilitating Bodies  Health History and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking a look at the work of war writers and examining public records, journalism, and medical writing, this book brings the study of the Civil War into conversation with the critical work on bodily ontology and epistemology and theories of narrative and history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This cleverly-written volume offers a fresh and sophisticated analysis of Civil War writing and of American medical and historical discourse.\"\" * \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary Realism\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Theoretically sophisticated and historically provocative, \u003ci\u003eRehabilitating Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e successfully lays bare 'the theoretical connection between corporeality and history as a field of discourse.'\" * \u003ci\u003eClio\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Year That Trembled and Reel'd beneath Me\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Doctors' Bodies: Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and Patient Malingering\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Dead Bodies: Mourning Fictions and the Corporeity of Heaven\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Sanitized Bodies: The United States Sanitary Commission and Soul-Sickness\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Experimental Bodies: African American Writers and the Rehabilitation of War Work\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Soldiers' Bodies: Historical Fictions and the Sickness of Battle\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Nursing Bodies: Civil War Women and Postbellum Regeneration\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Historical Bodies: African American Scholars and the Discipline of History\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Conjuring Civil War Bodies\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MT - University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577538810199,"sku":"9780812237481","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812237481.jpg?v=1746095741","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rehabilitating-bodies-health-history-and-the-american-civil-war-9780812237481","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}