Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain

Informationen zum Autor Tracey Loughran is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Cardiff University. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Tracey Loughran, Tracey (University of Essex) Loughran, Loughran Tracey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781107569478
• ISBN: 978-1-107-56947-8
• No. of pages: 291
• Series: Studies in the Social and Cult; Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology, HISTORY / Military / General, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, MEDICAL / History, Psychiatry, History of Medicine, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Occupational and industrial psychology, Occupational & industrial psychology, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Military life & institutions, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), Military institutions, MEDICAL / Military Medicine