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

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

About this book

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 institutions—families, activist groups, government bureaucracies, welfare state programs—mediated 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.

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Yes, you can access Weary Warriors : Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers by Pamela Moss, Michael J. Prince in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Military & Maritime History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781789201109
Topic
History
Subtopic
Military & Maritime History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Weary Warriors
  2. Contents
  3. Tables
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction — Weary Warriors Walk among Us: Combat, Knowledge Circulation, and Naming Traumatized Soldiers
  7. Chapter 1 — Ravished Minds and Ill Bodies: Power, Embodiment, Dispositifs
  8. Chapter 2 — Unsettling Notions: War Neuroses, Soldiering, and Broken Embodiments
  9. Chapter 3 — Classifying Bodies through Diagnosis: Knowledges, Locations, and Categorical Enclosures
  10. Chapter 4 — Managing Illness through Power: Regulation, Resistance, and Truth Games
  11. Chapter 5 — Cultural Accounts of the Soldier as Subject: Folds, Disclosures, and Enactments
  12. Chapter 6 — Fixing Soldiers: The Treatment of Bodies, Minds, and Souls
  13. Chapter 7 — The Soldier in Context: Psychiatric Practices, Military Imperatives, and Masculine Ideals
  14. Chapter 8 — Soldiering On: Care of Self, Status Passages, and Citizenship Claims
  15. Chapter 9 — Military Bodies and Battles Multiple: Embodied Trauma, Ontological Politics, and Patchwork Warriors
  16. References
  17. Index