By Mark S. Micale, Paul Lerner

Trauma--the mental outcomes of wars, injuries and abuse--has turn into the topic of heated debate between medical professionals, psychologists, and lay critics (and activists) lately. The essays during this ebook hint the origins of those debates in drugs and tradition in sleek Europe and the USA. They hide clinical and cultural features of reports understood to be "traumatic" from rail and manufacturing unit injuries within the later 19th century in the course of the First international battle and its aftermath.

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The numbers are sketchy but consistently high. Peter Leese finds that approximately , cases of nervously ill soldiers were treated at the Craiglockhardt Hospital outside of Edinburgh, and according to Martin Stone and others, some , British servicemen suffered from shellshock. W. F. Bynum, Roy Porter, and Michael Shepherd, vol. . (London: Tavistock, ), –. Below Caroline Trauma, Psychiatry, and History  observed the startling onset of dramatic shaking, stuttering, and disorders of sight, hearing, and gait among mobilized soldiers and began to question the connection between these puzzling symptoms and the manifold shocks and horrors of combat.

Framing Disease: Studies in Cultural History (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, ).  Paul Lerner and Mark S. Micale patriotism, service, and self-sacrifice. In the context of Germany’s calamitous defeat, left-wing political revolution, and dire economic conditions, postwar Traumatiker were vilified as weak, selfish, and insubordinate. To similar effect, the view that Italian military-medical authorities took of wartime nervous invalids was inseparable from the degenerationist intellectual heritage of their countryman, Cesare Lombroso, and the regional and social disharmony that threatened the Italian state.

States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies (Princeton: Princeton University Press, ), –. In an unpublished paper called “Traumatic Neurasthenia’ and the British Workmen’s Compensation Acts, c. –c. ,” Michael Clark discusses these issues in the British work place; an abstract can be found in Social History of Medicine  (), –.  Kenneth Levin, Freud’s Early Psychology of the Neuroses (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, );Young, The Harmony of Illusions (), –, –;Wilson,“Historical Evolution of PTSD Diagnostic Criteria,” Psychotraumatology (), –.

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