Weary Road - Shell Shock in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918

Mark Osborne Humphries uses patient records and official army files from Canadian, British and Australian archives to examine war trauma as it was experienced, treated and managed in the frontlines of the British and Canadian forces during the First World War.

List of contents

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Framing Shell Shock: Nervous Illness before the Great War
2 Purely Shattered Nerves: British and Canadian Approaches to Treatment, 1914-1915
3 Baptism of Fire: The Ypres Salient, 1915
4 The CEF’s Shell Shock Crisis, Spring 1916
5 Treatment of Evacuated Cases, 1915-1916
6 The BEF’s Shell Shock Crisis on the Somme, June-November 1916
7 Managing Shell Shock at the Front, October 1916-June 1917
8 Illusions of Success: The NYDN Centres, June-December 1917
9 Failure and Retrenchment, 1917-1918
Conclusion
Appendix A: Special Shell Shock Hospitals and NYDN Centres in Army Areas
Appendix B: A Note on First World War Medical Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

By Mark Osborne Humphries

Summary

Mark Osborne Humphries uses patient records and official army files from Canadian, British and Australian archives to examine war trauma as it was experienced, treated and managed in the frontlines of the British and Canadian forces during the First World War.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Osborne Humphries
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781442644717
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4471-7
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance; IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Kanada, Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte der Medizin, 1910 bis 1919 n. Chr., Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte