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This book is a study of the formation of the medical diagnosis of shell-shock in First World War Britain. Dr Loughran examines the intellectual resources doctors drew on as they struggled to make sense of nervous collapse and reveals the contribution of shell-shock on the development of psychoanalytic approaches to mind and behaviour.
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Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain, Tracey Loughran
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- Released
- 2020
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- Title
- Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Tracey Loughran
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Released
- 2020
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 291
- ISBN10
- 1107569478
- ISBN13
- 9781107569478
- Series
- Tags
- Health & Medicine, Nature
- Description
- This book is a study of the formation of the medical diagnosis of shell-shock in First World War Britain. Dr Loughran examines the intellectual resources doctors drew on as they struggled to make sense of nervous collapse and reveals the contribution of shell-shock on the development of psychoanalytic approaches to mind and behaviour.