Traumatic Pasts - History, Psychiatry and Trauma in the Modern Age 1870-1930

Klappentext The essays in this book trace the origins of ongoing heated debates regarding trauma. Zusammenfassung Trauma - the psychological consequences of wars, accidents and abuse - has become the subject of heated debate among doctors, psychologists and lay critics (and activists). The essays in this 2001 book trace the origins of these debates in medicine and culture between 1870–1930 in Europe and America. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors; Preface; 1. Trauma, psychiatry, and history: a conceptual and historiographical introduction Paul Lerner and Mark S. Micale; Part I. Travel and Trauma in the Victorian Era: 2. The railway accident: trains, trauma, and technological crisis in nineteenth-century Britain Ralph Harrington; 3. Trains and trauma in the American gilded age Eric Caplan; Part II. Work, Accidents, and Trauma in the Early Welfare State: 4. Events, series, trauma: the probabilistic revolution of the mind in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Wolfgang Schäffner; 5. The German welfare state as a discourse of trauma Greg A. Eghigian; Part III. Theorizing Trauma: Psychiatry and Modernity at the Turn of the Century: 6. Jean-Martin Charcot and les névroses traumatiques: from medicine to culture in French trauma theory of the late nineteenth century Mark S. Micale; 7. From traumatic neurosis to male hysteria: the decline and fall of Hermann Oppenheim, 1889-1919 Paul Lerner; 8. The construction of female sexual trauma in turn-of-the-century American mental medicine Lisa Cardyn; Part IV. Shock, Trauma, and Psychiatry in the First World War: 9. 'Why are they not cured?' British shellshock treatment during the Great War Peter Leese; 10. Psychiatrists, soldiers, and officers in Italy during the Great War Bruna Bianchi; 11. A Battle of Nerves: hysteria and its treatments in France during World War I Marc Roudebush; 13. Invisible wounds: the American legion, shell-shocked veterans, and American society, 1919-1924 Caroline Cox; Index....

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• Authors: Mark S. Micale
• Assisted by: Paul Lerner (Editor), Lerner Paul (Editor), Micale Mark S. (Editor), Mark S. Micale (Editor), Micale Mark S. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780521142083
• ISBN: 978-0-521-14208-3
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo; Print on Demand; Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book; USA, PSYCHOLOGY / General, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, Psychology, MEDICAL / History, Psychiatry, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Medicine, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States of America, USA, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909