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Title The First World War and health : rethinking resilience / edited by Leo Van Bergen and Eric Vermetten
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 520 pages) : illustrations
Series History of warfare, 1385-7827 ; volume 130
History of warfare ; v.130.
Contents Part 1. Military Resilience -- 1. Military Resilience -- 2. Death from the Air : The Resilience of Modern Society Militarily Put to the Test, 1900-35 -- 3. The Art of Resilience : Veteran Therapy from the Occupational to the Creative, 1914-45 -- 4. Intoxicants and Intoxication on the Western Front 1914-18 -- Part 2. Medical Resilience -- 5. The Vexed Construct of Medical Resilience : Friend or Foe? Introduction on 'Medical Resilience'
6. War of the Mind : Psychiatry and Neurology in the British and French Armies -- 7. Between Efficiency and Experimentation : Revisiting War and Psychiatry in Vienna, 1914-20 -- 8. Bodies without Souls : The Return of Belgian Traumatized Servicemen -- 9. ""There are no More Cripples!"" Orthopedics and Resiliency in First World War Germany -- 10. The 'Prick Parade' : The First World War and Venereal Disease -- 11. Un-remembered but Unforgettable : The 'Spanish Flu' Pandemic -- Part 3. Personal Resilience -- 12. Personal Resilience and Narrative Gravity -- 13. Emotional Containment : Nurses and Resilience
14. 'The Soldiers Come Home' : Lessons Learned (and Not Learned) through American Experience in the First World War -- 15. God's Soldiers : Religion and Resilience -- 16. About Blighties and Bonnes Blessures : Self-inflicted Wounds as a Means to Cope with the Hardships of the First World War? -- 17. 'Sticking It' : Resilience in the Life-Writing of Medical Personnel in the First World War -- Part 4. Societal Resilience -- 18. Societal Resilience through Persistence -- 19. Humanity at a Time of Inhumanity : The International Movement of the Red Cross and Red Crescent
20. Prevention! Not Curation : Medical Voices against War -- 21. The Great Alienation in the Great War : Chinese and Indian War Experiences from the Western Front -- 22. Facing the Aftermath : Remembering, Forgetting, and Resilience
Summary "The First World War and Health: Rethinking Resilience considers how the First World War (1914-1918) affected mental and physical health, its treatment, and how the victims - not only soldiers and sailors, but also medics, and even society as a whole - tried to cope with the wounds sustained. The volume, which contains over twenty articles divided into four sections (military, personal, medical, and societal resilience), therefore aims to broaden the scope of resilience: resilience is more than the personal ability to cope with hardship; if society as a whole cannot cope with, or even obstructs, personal recovery, resilience is difficult to achieve. Contributors are Carol Acton, Julie Anderson, Leo van Bergen, Ana Carden-Coyne, Cédric Cotter, Dominiek Dendooven, Christine van Everbroeck, David Flecknoe, Christine Hallett, Hans-Georg Hofer, Edgar Jones, Wim Klinkert, Harold Kudler, Alexander McFarlane, Johan Meire, Heather Perry, Jane Potter, Fiona Reid, Jeffrey Reznick, Stephen Snelders, Hanneke Takken, Pieter Trogh, and Eric Vermetten"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 06, 2020)
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Psychological aspects
World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care
War -- Psychological aspects.
War -- Medical aspects.
Resilience (Personality trait)
Psychological aspects
Medical care
Resilience (Personality trait)
War -- Medical aspects
War -- Psychological aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Bergen, Leo van, editor.
Vermetten, Eric, 1961- editor.
LC no. 2020007365
ISBN 9789004428744
9004428747