Tracey Loughran

Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a thought-provoking exploration into the diagnosis of shell-shock and medical culture in First World War Britain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781107128903
• ISBN-10: 1107128900
• Artikelnr.: 45154022

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.