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Electronic book |
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xiv, 316 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in the history of medicine |
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Cambridge studies in the history of medicine.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1. Trauma, psychiatry and history: a conceptual and historiographical introduction Paul Lerner and Mark S. Micale -- Part I. Travel and Trauma in the Victorian Era: 2. The railway accident: trains, trauma and technological crisis in nineteenth-century Britain Ralph Harrington -- 3. Trains and trauma in the American gilded age Eric Caplan -- Part II. Work, Accidents and Trauma in the Early Welfare State: 4. Events, series, trauma: the probabilistic revolution of the mind in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Wolfgang Schaffner -- 5. The German welfare state as a discourse of trauma Greg A. Eghigian -- Part III. Theorizing Trauma: Psychiatry and Modernity at the Turn of the Century: 6. Jean-Martin Charcot and 'les nevroses traumatiques': from medicine to culture in French trauma theory of the late nineteenth century Mark S. Micale -- 7. From traumatic neurosis to male hysteria: the decline and fall of Hermann Oppenheim, 1889-1919 Paul Lerner -- 8. The construction of female sexual trauma in American mental medicine at the turn of the century Lisa Cardyn -- Part IV. Shock, Trauma and Psychiatry in the First World War: 9.'Why are they not cured?': British shellshock treatment during the Great War Peter Leese -- 10. Psychiatrists, soldiers and officers in Italy during the Great War Bruna Bianchi -- 11. 'A Battle of Nerves': hysteria and its treatments in France during World War I Marc Roudebush -- 13. 'Invisible wounds': the American legion, shell-shocked veterans, and mental illness, 1919-1924 Caroline Cox |
| Notes |
Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Dec 2011) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Psychiatry -- History -- 19th century.
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Psychiatry -- History -- 20th century.
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Psychic trauma -- History.
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Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic -- history.
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History, 19th Century.
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History, 20th Century.
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Psychiatry -- history.
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| Author |
Lerner, Paul Frederick.
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Micale, Mark S., 1957-
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| LC no. |
00068953 |
| ISBN |
0521583659 |
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