A history of military psychiatry from the American Civil War to the latest Afghanistan conflict. Explores the psychological and emotional trauma soldiers suffer and develops an extensive account of the emergence, diagnosis, and treatment of soldiers’ "invisible wounds". Takes into account the wider social and political networks these "weary warriors" are caught up in.
A history of military psychiatry from the American Civil War to the latest Afghanistan conflict. Explores the psychological and emotional trauma soldiers suffer and develops an extensive account of the emergence, diagnosis, and treatment of soldiers’ "invisible wounds". Takes into account the wider social and political networks these "weary warriors" are caught up in.
Pamela Moss is a Professor in Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She co-authored with Isabel Dyck of Women, Body, Illness (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), edited with Katherine Teghtsoonian Contesting Illness (University of Toronto Press, 2008), and wrote and edited with Karen Falconer Al-Hindi Feminisms in Geography (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). She is working on a book manuscript about women's tired bodies entitled Fatigue.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments 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 References Index
List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments 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 References Index
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