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1 online resource (xv, 270 pages) |
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Introduction: Weary Warriors Walk Among Us: Combat, Knowledge Circulation, and Naming Traumatized Soldiers -- Chapter 1. Ravished Minds and Ill Bodies: Power, Embodiment, Dispositifs -- Chapter 2. Unsettling Notions: War Neuroses, Soldiering, and Broken Embodiments -- Chapter 3. Classifying Bodies through Diagnosis: Knowledges, Locations, and Categorical Enclosures -- Chapter 4. Managing Illness through Power: Regulation, Resistance and Truth Games -- Chapter 5. Cultural Accounts of the Soldier as Subject: Folds, Disclosures and Enactments -- Chapter 6. Fixing Soldiers: The Treatment of Bodies, Minds, and Souls -- Chapter 7. The Soldier in Context: Psychiatric Practices, Military Imperatives, and Masculine Ideals -- Chapter 8. Soldiering On: Care of Self, Status Passages, and Citizenship Claims -- Chapter 9. Military Bodies and Battles Multiple: Embodied Trauma, Ontological Politics, and Patchwork Warriors |
| Summary |
As seen in military documents, medical journals, novels, films, television shows, and memoirs, soldiers' invisible wounds are not innate cracks in individual psyches that break under the stress of war. Instead, the generation of weary warriors is caught up in wider social and political networks and institutions-families, activist groups, government bureaucracies, welfare state programs-mediated through a military hierarchy, psychiatry rooted in mind-body sciences, and various cultural constructs of masculinity. This book offers a history of military psychiatry from the American Civil War to t |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 fast |
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Military psychiatry -- Philosophy
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Veterans -- Medical care -- Social aspects
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Veterans -- Psychology
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Soldiers -- Psychology
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War neuroses -- Social aspects
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Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Social aspects
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Sociology, Military.
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Military history.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Social aspects
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Sociology, Military
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Soldiers -- Psychology
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Veterans -- Psychology
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Prince, Michael J., author.
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| ISBN |
1306874378 |
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9781306874373 |
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9781782383475 |
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1782383476 |
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9781782383468 |
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1782383468 |
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9781789201109 |
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1789201101 |
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