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.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 270 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1306874378 9781306874373 9781782383475 1782383476 |