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A weary road : shell shock in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918 /
More than 16,000 Canadian soldiers suffered from shell shock during the Great War of 1914 to 1918. Despite significant interest from historians, we still know relatively little about how it was experienced, diagnosed, treated, and managed in the frontline trenches in the Canadian and British forces....
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| Language: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2018]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Framing Shell Shock: Nervous Illness before the Great War; 2 Purely Shattered Nerves: British and Canadian Approaches to Treatment, 1914-1915; 3 Baptism of Fire: The Ypres Salient, 1915; 4 The CEF's Shell Shock Crisis, Spring 1916; 5 Treatment of Evacuated Cases, 1915-1916; 6 The BEF's Shell Shock Crisis on the Somme, June-November 1916; 7 Managing Shell Shock at the Front, October 1916-June 1917; 8 Illusions of Success: The NYDN Centres, June-December 1917
- 9 Failure and Retrenchment, 1917-1918Conclusion; Appendix A: Special Shell Shock Hospitals and NYDN Centres in Army Areas; Appendix B: A Note on First World War Medical Sources; Notes; Bibliography; Index