Shell-shock and medical culture in First World War Britain / Tracey Loughran, Cardiff University.
| Author/creator | Loughran, Tracey author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017. |
| Copyright Date | ©2017 |
| Description | 1 online resource (xi, 279 pages). |
| Supplemental Content | Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare ; v. 48 Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare. ^A682997 |
| Contents | Cover ; Half-title; Series information ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Dedication ; Table of contents ; Acknowledgements ; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction: ''Shell-Shock'' and Medical Culture in First World War Britain ; ''Shell-Shock'', War, and Social Change. |
| Contents | ''Shell-Shock'', Trauma, and PTSD ''Shell-Shock'' and Medical Culture ; ''Shell-Shock'' and National Memories of the First World War ; 1 Frameworks of Understanding: Reconstructing the Human from Darwin to the First World War. |
| Contents | Understanding Mind, Nerves, and Brain in Pre-War Medical Culture Psychology, Psychiatry, and Medical Education ; The Evolutionary Model of Mind in Pre-War Psychological Medicine ; The Faculties of Mind: Thought, Emotion, and Will ; Mind and Its Disorders ; Conclusion. |
| Contents | 2 Languages of Diagnosis: Hysteria, Neurasthenia, and Changing Pre-War Psychological Medicine Hysteria and Neurasthenia in Pre-War Medical Discourse ; Hysteria, Neurasthenia, and Functional Disease ; The Symptom, the Illness, and the Patient. |
| Contents | Race, Nation, and Politics: Hysteria, Neurasthenia, and the Neurotic Temperament Conclusion ; 3 Body and Mind in ''Shell-Shock'': War and Change within Psychological Medicine ; Early Medical Responses to the Nervous and Mental Disorders of War, 1914-1916. |
| Abstract | This book provides a thought-provoking exploration into the diagnosis of shell-shock and medical culture in First World War Britain. |
| General note | 1916: Differentiation, Opposition, and Displacement. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Loughran, Tracey. Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2017 9781107128903 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9781316787175 |
| ISBN | 1316787176 |
| ISBN | 9781316788134 |
| ISBN | 131678813X |
| ISBN | 9781316415672 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 1316415678 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781107569478 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1107569478 |
| ISBN | 1316786218 |
| ISBN | 9781316786215 |
| ISBN | 1316786854 |
| ISBN | 9781316786857 |
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