This book explores military patients' experiences of frontline medical evacuation, war surgery, and the social world of military hospitals during the First World War. The proximity of the front and the colossal numbers of wounded created greater public awareness of the impact of…
This transnational, interdisciplinary study of traumatic neurosis moves beyond the existing histories of medical theory, welfare, and symptomatology. The essays explore the personal traumas of soldiers and civilians in the wake of the First World War; they also discuss how memor…
This book examines the 'medical organisation' of Imperial Germany for total war. Faced with mounting casualties and a growing labour shortage, German military, industrial and governmental officials turned to medical experts for assistance in the total mobilisation of society. Th…
This book examines the 'medical organisation' of Imperial Germany for total war. Faced with mounting casualties and a growing labour shortage, German military, industrial and governmental officials turned to medical experts for assistance in the total mobilisation of society. Th…
This book examines the 'medical organisation' of Imperial Germany for total war. Faced with mounting casualties and a growing labour shortage, German military, industrial and governmental officials turned to medical experts for assistance in the total mobilisation of society. Th…
This book examines the 'medical organisation' of Imperial Germany for total war. Faced with mounting casualties and a growing labour shortage, German military, industrial and governmental officials turned to medical experts for assistance in the total mobilisation of society. Th…
This book is about war and the sanctification of it; offers an analysis of what Mosse calls the Myth of the War Experience--a vision of war that masks its horror, consecrates its memory, and ultimately justifies its purpose.
Examining experiences of the Western front, this book looks at the life of a soldier, from the moment he marched to battle until he was buried. In five chapters - Battle, Body, Mind, Aid, Death - it describes and analyses the physical and mental hardship of the men who fought.
Examining experiences of the Western front, this book looks at the life of a soldier, from the moment he marched to battle until he was buried. In five chapters - Battle, Body, Mind, Aid, Death - it describes and analyses the physical and mental hardship of the men who fought.
Introduction: War is good for medicine -- From the trench to the hospital -- Iconic wounds: gas, shell shock, facial injury -- Ordinary soldiers and ordinary pain -- "We did not fight": medical pacifism and war -- Lessons and legacies: "Blood swept lands and seas of red." "Expl…
"Explores the history of medical services, health and welfare in Europe during the First World War."--Provided by publisher.
"Explores the history of medical services, health and welfare in Europe during the First World War."--Provided by publisher
"Explores the history of medical services, health and welfare in Europe during the First World War."--Provided by publisher.
"Explores the history of medical services, health and welfare in Europe during the First World War."--Provided by publisher
