Shell-shock and medical culture in First World War Britain
Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain is a thought-provoking reassessment of medical responses to war-related psychological breakdown in the early twentieth century. Dr Loughran places shell-shock within the historical context of British psychological medicine to examine the int...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2017
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| Schriftenreihe: | Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: "Shell-Shock" and Medical Culture in First World War Britain
- Frameworks of Understanding : Reconstructing the Human from Darwin to the First World War
- Languages of Diagnosis : Hysteria, Neurasthenia and Changing Pre-War Psychological Medicine
- Body and Mind in "Shell-Shock" : War and Change within Psychological Medicine
- Reading Silences : Gender and Class in Medical Discourse on "Shell-Shock"
- Re-Making Men : Will in Medical Approaches to "Shell-Shock"
- Animal Bodies and Minds : Instinct and Regression in "Shell-Shock"
- Conclusion: "Shell-Shock" and Post-War Medical Culture