Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain - Couverture souple

Loughran, Tracey

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1107569478 ISBN 13 : 9781107569478

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain is a thought-provoking reassessment of medical responses to war-related psychological breakdown in the early twentieth century. Dr Loughran places shell-shock within the historical context of British psychological medicine to examine the intellectual resources doctors drew on as they struggled to make sense of nervous collapse. She reveals how medical approaches to shell-shock were formulated within an evolutionary framework which viewed mental breakdown as regression to a level characteristic of earlier stages of individual or racial development, but also ultimately resulted in greater understanding and acceptance of psychoanalytic approaches to human mind and behaviour. Through its demonstration of the crucial importance of concepts of mind-body relations, gender, willpower and instinct to the diagnosis of shell-shock, this book locates the disorder within a series of debates on human identity dating back to the Darwinian revolution and extending far beyond the medical sphere.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tracey Loughran is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Cardiff University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107569478
• ISBN 13: 9781107569478
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 292
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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