Weary Warriors: Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers
Pamela Moss
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Description for Weary Warriors: Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KB; 3JH; 3JJ; JHB; JW; MMH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 594.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
593g
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782383468
SKU
V9781782383468
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About Pamela Moss
Pamela Moss is a Professor in Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She co-authored with Isabel Dyck of Women, Body, Illness (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), edited with Katherine Teghtsoonian Contesting Illness (University of Toronto Press, 2008), and wrote and edited with Karen Falconer Al-Hindi Feminisms in Geography (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). She is working ... Read more
Reviews for Weary Warriors: Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers
This is a solid piece of scholarship. The authors successfully apply key concepts from Foucault, along with those of his feminist critics, to the analysis of soldiers returning from war. In so doing, they deepen our understanding of how weary warriors are constructed through time and space, and what his/her diagnosis, treatment, and release says about wider relations of power ... Read more