Weary warriors power, knowledge, and the invisible wounds of soldiers
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...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York
Berghahn Books
2014, 2014
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Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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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Physical Description: | xv, 270 pages |