Author: Mark Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1317318048
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war Britain through a series of carefully connected case studies.
Author: P. Leese
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002-07-12
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0230287921
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →To the British soldiers of the Great War who heard about it, 'shell shock' was uncanny, amusing and sad. To those who experienced it, the condition was shameful, unjustly stigmatized and life-changing. The first full-length study of the British 'shell shocked' soldiers of the Great War combines social and medical history to investigate the experience of psychological casualties on the Western Front, in hospitals, and through their postwar lives. It also investigates the condition's origin and consequences within British culture.
Author: United States. Surgeon-General's Office
Publisher:
Published: 1929
Total Pages: 568
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Published: 1929
Total Pages: 570
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Surgeon-General's Office
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Published: 1929
Total Pages: 558
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Surgeon-General's Office
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Published: 1929
Total Pages: 568
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Anthony Babington
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 1990-12-31
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1473818125
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As Anthony Babington is careful to point out in his forwrd, this is not a medical book. It is, rather, a distillation, in words which any layman can understand, of the long struggle by the medical profession, and by influencail civilians of an understanding frame of mind, to persudae the Service Chiefs, in particuliar Senior army pfficers, that soldiers can only stand so much fighting. In the First World War, as Babington points out, men were shot at dawn for cowardice or desertion. One can only wonder that many more didn't crack up under the appalling stress to which they were subjected. By 1939 the situation had improved, and of course the Second World War was a much more mobile affair, without the set-piece mass slaughter that characterised the earlier conflict. It may also be remarked that it was much easier for the average private soldier to realize that he was fighting for a good cause, the Nazis being more readily identifiable as bogeymen than the soldiers of the Kaiser. There are those who argue that in the postwar era, things have gone too far in the opposite direction. Indeed Babington quotes the Duke of Edinburgh as saying: "We didn't have counsellers rushing around every time someone let off a gun asking "Are you alright" You just got on with it." Nonetheless few would argue that a counsellor is preferable to a firing squad. Judge Babington has produced a fascinating, if sometimes harrowing, study of the effects of war upon the fighting soldier, of the gradual understanding of the problem of battle fatigue and of the more merciful and sympathetic approach to its treatment. Readers of his earlier works will appreciate that it is a subject which he is uniquely qualified to handle.
Author: National Research Council (U.S.)
Publisher:
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 572
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