The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War, by Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers

Book of the week: the horrific mutilations of wartime provided fertile ground for research, writes Linda Maynard

Published on
January 31, 2019
Last updated
January 31, 2019
Linda Maynard
shellshock victims
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Casualties of war: this study shows ‘that shell shock was conceived on the functional model of wound shock’, countering the centrality of psychological trauma

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Print headline: Fragile flesh and damaged minds

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