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Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain
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Artikel-Nr:
9781107128903
Veröffentl:
2017
Erscheinungsdatum:
27.02.2017
Seiten:
290
Autor:
Tracey Loughran
Gewicht:
558 g
Format:
233x154x27 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Tracey Loughran is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Cardiff University.
This book provides a thought-provoking exploration into the diagnosis of shell-shock and medical culture in First World War Britain.
Introduction: shell-shock and medical culture in First World War Britain; 1. Frameworks of understanding: reconstructing the human from Darwin to the First World War; 2. Languages of diagnosis: hysteria, neurasthenia and changing pre-war psychological medicine; 3. Body and mind in shell-shock: war and change within psychological medicine; 4. Reading silences: gender and class in medical discourse on shell-shock; 5. Remaking men: will in medical approaches to shell-shock; 6. Animal bodies and minds: instinct and regression in shell-shock; Conclusion: shell-shock and post-war medical culture; Bibliography; Index.