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Synopsis

The First World War and Health: Rethinking Resilience aims to broaden the scope of resilience by looking at it from military, medical, personal and societal perspectives. The authors ask how war influenced the health both physically and psychologically of those fighting and attending the wounded, as well as the general health of the community of which they were part.

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À propos de l?auteur

Leo van Bergen is a medical historian mainly interested in colonial medicine and war and medicine. He has written extensively on these subjects, including a medical history of the First World War, Before my Helpless Sight (2009). Eric Vermetten is a military psychiatrist and professor of psychotrauma. His work is pioneering in the field of medical psychotraumatology: the role of stress, trauma, complex PTSD and neuroscience. He is interested in historical basis of psychotrauma research as a foundation for current approaches to treatment.

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