Shell Shock

Traumatic Neurosis and the British Soldiers of the First World War
2002. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-333-96926-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 229 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 494 g

To the British soldiers of the Great War who heard about it, 'shell shock' was uncanny, amusing and sad. To those who experienced it, the condition was shameful, unjustly stigmatized and life-changing. The first full-length study of the British 'shell shocked' soldiers of the Great War combines social and medical history to investigate the experience of psychological casualties on the Western Front, in hospitals, and through their postwar lives. It also investigates the condition's origin and consequences within British culture.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leese, P.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: DISCOVERIES Shocking Modernity: Hysteria, Technology and Warfare Casualties: On the Western Front PART II: WARTIME Enlistment: Army Policy, Politics and the Press Treatment: On the Home Front Patients: The Other Ranks Patients: The Officer Ranks PART II: LEGACIES Demobilization: On Returning Home Veterans: War Neurotic Ex-Servicemen Recall: The Great War in the Twentieth Century Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

PETER LEESE is Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural History at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.