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The politics of wounds : military patients and medical power in the first World War /
This volume offers a new cultural approach to the history of medicine and wounding in the First World War, placing personal experiences of pain into the social, cultural, and political contexts of military medical institutions.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford [England] ; New York, New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; The Politics of Wounds: Military Patients and Medical Power in the First World War; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Acronyms and Initialisms; Introduction: Wounded Politics Military Patients in History; MILITARIZED BODIES AND MEDICAL POWER IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR; STRUCTURE AND CONTENTS; 1: Men in Pain: Triage, Transport, and the War Machine; CIVILIANIZING MILITARY MEDICINE: HUMANITARIANS, TRIAGE, AND THE WAR MACHINE; THE POLITICS OF MEDICAL EVACUATION: DELAY AND DISORGANIZATION; Painless or painful? Hospital trains and ambulances.
- Mobile medicine and the impact on expertiseWhen the doctor became the patient: Captain Gibbon's story; Gallipoli and Mesopotamia: administrative histories and witnessing pain; MEDICAL PROPAGANDA AND TECHNOLOGY; PAINFUL TRANSPORT AND THE PROBLEM WITH SPEED; TRIAGE: PATIENTS' AND DOCTORS' EXPERIENCES; BUREAUCRATIZING WOUNDS: 'PLEASURE AND PAIN' IN THE SURGICAL ASSEMBLY LINE; ROTATING PATIENTS THROUGH THE MEDICAL WAR MACHINE; CONCLUSION; 2: Surgical Wars: Wounds, Experiments, and Ethics; EXPERIMENTATION AND ETHICS; Inexperienced surgeons and amputation scandals.
- Public enemies: politicizing gas gangrene and tetanusAntiseptic agonies and surgical conflict; PAINFUL CHEMICALS AND DISSENTING VOICES; RENEWING DEBRIDEMENT AND HEALING TREATMENTS; THE INTER-ALLIED SURGICAL CONFERENCE 1917 AND ITS AFTERMATH; CONCLUSION; 3: Transformations in the 'Theatre of Dreams': Resuscitation, Anaesthetics, Opportunity, and Patient Agency; TRANSFORMING LIFE: FROM MORIBUND TO RESUSCITATION PATIENTS; ANAESTHESIA AND PAIN RELIEF: MORTALITY AND PATIENT PERSPECTIVES; On coming round in the 'theatre of dreams'; SURGEONS' DREAMS AND THE INHUMANITY OF WAR.
- MOCKING THE SURGEON: THE PATIENT STRIKES BACKCONCLUSION; 4: Provocative Wounds: Sociality and Intimacy in War Hospitals; THE MILITARY HOSPITAL: AN IMPERIAL FAMILY HOME?; Hospital blues: discipline and identity; INSIDE THE WARD CULTURES: THE PLEASURES AND DANGERS OF WOUNDS; 'Promiscuous visitors' to the 'exhibitionary forces'; The pleasure of wounds: telling tall tales; Malingering performances; The social value of wounds; PAINFUL BODIES AND SEXUAL COMMUNITIES; Touching, healing, and feminine fantasy; QUEER CARNIVAL AND INTIMATE FRIENDSHIPS.
- SENSORY TRAUMA AND FEMINIZED THERAPIES:GENDERING REHABILITATIONNURSE ETHEL AND CORPORAL CHARLES: A HOSPITAL ROMANCE; CONCLUSION; 5: Silent Wounds: Coercion, Brutality, and Resistance in War Hospitals; COMPULSORY CHEERFULNESS AND THE MYTH OF THE 'HAPPY HOSPITAL'; GENDERING 'BRUTAL METHODS' : DISCIPLINE, SEXUALITY, AND RESISTANCE; DISCIPLINE AND DISTRUST; Malingering detection and the construction of true/false pain; Disciplinary spaces; Drunk doctors and indiscipline; THERAPEUTIC OR TOTAL INSTITUTIONS? THE CULTURE OF COERCION AND COMPLAINT.