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The First World War and health : rethinking resilience /

"The First World War and Health: Rethinking Resilience considers how the First World War (1914-1918) affected mental and physical health, its treatment, and how the victims - not only soldiers and sailors, but also medics, and even society as a whole - tried to cope with the wounds sustained. T...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bergen, Leo van (Editor ), Vermetten, Eric, 1961- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Colección:History of warfare ; v.130.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Military Resilience
  • 1. Military Resilience
  • 2. Death from the Air : The Resilience of Modern Society Militarily Put to the Test, 1900-35
  • 3. The Art of Resilience : Veteran Therapy from the Occupational to the Creative, 1914-45
  • 4. Intoxicants and Intoxication on the Western Front 1914-18
  • Part 2. Medical Resilience
  • 5. The Vexed Construct of Medical Resilience : Friend or Foe? Introduction on 'Medical Resilience'
  • 6. War of the Mind : Psychiatry and Neurology in the British and French Armies
  • 7. Between Efficiency and Experimentation : Revisiting War and Psychiatry in Vienna, 1914-20
  • 8. Bodies without Souls : The Return of Belgian Traumatized Servicemen
  • 9. ""There are no More Cripples!"" Orthopedics and Resiliency in First World War Germany
  • 10. The 'Prick Parade' : The First World War and Venereal Disease
  • 11. Un-remembered but Unforgettable : The 'Spanish Flu' Pandemic
  • Part 3. Personal Resilience
  • 12. Personal Resilience and Narrative Gravity
  • 13. Emotional Containment : Nurses and Resilience
  • 14. 'The Soldiers Come Home' : Lessons Learned (and Not Learned) through American Experience in the First World War
  • 15. God's Soldiers : Religion and Resilience
  • 16. About Blighties and Bonnes Blessures : Self-inflicted Wounds as a Means to Cope with the Hardships of the First World War?
  • 17. 'Sticking It' : Resilience in the Life-Writing of Medical Personnel in the First World War
  • Part 4. Societal Resilience
  • 18. Societal Resilience through Persistence
  • 19. Humanity at a Time of Inhumanity : The International Movement of the Red Cross and Red Crescent
  • 20. Prevention! Not Curation : Medical Voices against War
  • 21. The Great Alienation in the Great War : Chinese and Indian War Experiences from the Western Front
  • 22. Facing the Aftermath : Remembering, Forgetting, and Resilience.