Tracey Loughran (University of Essex)

Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a study of the formation of the medical diagnosis of shell-shock in First World War Britain. Dr Loughran examines the intellectual resources doctors drew on as they struggled to make sense of nervous collapse and reveals the contribution of shell-shock on the development of psychoanalytic approaches to mind and behaviour.

Produktdetails

• Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 291
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9781107569478
• ISBN-10: 1107569478
• Artikelnr.: 60721386

Autorenporträt

Tracey Loughran is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Cardiff University.

Inhaltsangabe

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.