Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 270 pages)
ISBN:
1306874378
,
1782383476
,
1782383468
,
1789201101
,
9781782383468
,
9781782383475
,
9781789201109
,
9781306874373
Content:
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
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781782383468
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Moss, Pamela, 1960- Weary warriors New York : Berghahn, 2014
Language:
English
Keywords:
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