Traumatic Pasts History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870}}}1930 [Hardcover]

The essays in this book trace the origins of ongoing heated debates regarding trauma.Trauma the psychological consequences of wars, accidents and abuse has become the subject of heated debate among doctors, psychologists, and lay critics (and activists) in recent years. The essays in this book trace the origins of these debates in medicine and culture in modern Europe and America. They cover medical and cultural aspects of experiences understood to be traumatic from rail and factory accidents in the later nineteenth century through the First World War and its aftermath.Trauma the psychological consequences of wars, accidents and abuse has become the subject of heated debate among doctors, psychologists, and lay critics (and activists) in recent years. The essays in this book trace the origins of these debates in medicine and culture in modern Europe and America. They cover medical and cultural aspects of experiences understood to be traumatic from rail and factory accidents in the later nineteenth century through the First World War and its aftermath.Trauma--the psychological consequences of wars, accidents and abuse--has become the subject of heated debate among doctors, psychologists, and lay critics (and activists) in recent years. The essays in this book trace the origins of these debates in medicine and culture in modern Europe and America. They cover medical and cultural aspects of experiences understood to be traumatic from rail and factory accidents in the later nineteenth century through the First World War and its aftermath.Contributors; Preface; 1. Trauma, psychiatry, and history: a conceptual and historiographical introduction Paul Lerner and Mark S. Micale; Part I. Travel and Trauma in the Victorian Era: 2. The railway accident: trains, trauma, and technological crisis in nineteenth-century Britain Ralph Harrington; 3. Trains and trauma in the American gilded age Eric Caplan; Part II. Work, Accidents, and Trauma in the Early Welfare State: 4lC#