The First World War and Health : Rethinking Resilience.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (540 pages)
- History of Warfare Series ; v.130 .
- History of Warfare Series .
Intro -- The First World War and Health: Rethinking Resilience -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Contributors -- General Introduction -- Part 1: Military Resilience -- 1 Military Resilience -- 2 Death from the Air: The Resilience of Modern Society Militarily Put to the Test, 1900-35 -- 3 The Art of Resilience: Veteran Therapy from the Occupational to the Creative, 1914-45 -- 4 Intoxicants and Intoxication on the Western Front 1914-18 -- Part 2: Medical Resilience -- 5 The Vexed Construct of Medical Resilience: Friend or Foe? Introduction on 'Medical Resilience' -- 6 War of the Mind: Psychiatry and Neurology in the British and French Armies -- 7 Between Efficiency and Experimentation: Revisiting War and Psychiatry in Vienna, 1914-20 -- 8 Bodies without Souls: The Return of Belgian Traumatized Servicemen -- 9 "There are no More Cripples!" Orthopedics and Resiliency in First World War Germany -- 10 The 'Prick Parade': The First World War and Venereal Disease -- 11 Un-remembered but Unforgettable: The 'Spanish Flu' Pandemic -- Part 3: Personal Resilience -- 12 Personal Resilience and Narrative Gravity -- 13 Emotional Containment: Nurses and Resilience -- 14 'The Soldiers Come Home': Lessons Learned (and Not Learned) through American Experience in the First World War -- 15 God's Soldiers: Religion and Resilience -- 16 About Blighties and Bonnes Blessures: Self-inflicted Wounds as a Means to Cope with the Hardships of the First World War? -- 17 'Sticking It': Resilience in the Life-Writing of Medical Personnel in the First World War -- Part 4: Societal Resilience -- 18 Societal Resilience through Persistence -- 19 Humanity at a Time of Inhumanity: The International Movement of the Red Cross and Red Crescent -- 20 Prevention! Not Curation: Medical Voices against War. 21 The Great Alienation in the Great War: Chinese and Indian War Experiences from the Western Front -- 22 Facing the Aftermath: Remembering, Forgetting, and Resilience -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons -- Index of Places -- Index of Hospitals -- Index of 'Illnesses', 'afflictions', 'wounds'.
The First World War and Health: Rethinking Resilience aims to broaden the scope of resilience by looking at it from military, medical, personal and societal perspectives. The authors ask how war influenced the health - both physically and psychologically - of those fighting and attending the wounded, as well as the general health of the community of which they were part.