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Book Review
| Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War. By Lisa A. Long. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 332 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8122-3748-X.)
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| Lisa A. Long argues that the Civil War disrupted the bodily economy of American culture by changing received notions of the healthy white male body, developing new medical disciplines of rehabilitation and sanitation, and opening spaces for women and African Americans to participate in new ways in the body politic. Long sees these issues as shaping public consciousness throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
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