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Shell-shock and medical culture in First World War Britain / Tracey Loughran, Cardiff University.

Author/creator Loughran, Tracey author.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Copyright Notice ©2017
Description1 online resource (xi, 279 pages).
Supplemental Content Ebook Central
Subject(s)
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 note1916: Differentiation, Opposition, and Displacement.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionPrint version record.
Issued in other formPrint version: Loughran, Tracey. Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2017 9781107128903
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