Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain

ISBN-13: 9781107569478 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 291 str.

Tracey Loughran

Opis

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

Spis treści

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.