Weary Warriors: Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers

Moss, Pamela; Prince, Michael J.

ISBN 10: 1782383468 / ISBN 13: 9781782383468

Editore: Berghahn Books, 2014

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• Titolo: Weary Warriors: Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers
• Editore: Berghahn Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1782383468
• ISBN 13: 9781782383468
• Condizione: nuovo

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Riassunto

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 institutionsfamilies, activist groups, government bureaucracies, welfare state programsmediated 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 the latest Afghanistan conflict. The authors trace the effects of power and knowledge in relation to the emotional and psychological trauma that shapes soldiers bodies, minds, and souls, developing an extensive account of the emergence, diagnosis, and treatment of soldiers invisible wounds.

Informazioni sugli autori

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 womens tired bodies entitled Fatigue.

Michael J. Prince is Lansdowne Professor of Social Policy at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He is author of Absent Citizens: Disability Politics and Policy in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2009), author and co-editor with Glen Toner and Leslie Pal of Policy: From Ideas to Implementation (McGill-Queens University Press, 2010), co-author with Bruce Doern of Three Bio-Realms (University of Toronto Press, 2012), and co-author with James Rice of Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy, 2nd edition (University of Toronto Press, 2013).

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 womens tired bodies entitled Fatigue.