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A weary road : shell shock in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918
- Title
- A weary road : shell shock in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918 / Mark Osborne Humphries.
- Author
- Humphries, Mark Osborne, 1981-
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Description
- xii, 461 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- More than 16,000 Canadian soldiers suffered from shell shock during the Great War of 1914 to 1918. Despite significant interest from historians, we still know relatively little about how it was experienced, diagnosed, treated, and managed in the frontline trenches in the Canadian and British forces. How did soldiers relate to suffering comrades? Did large numbers of shell shock cases affect the outcome of important battles? Was frontline psychiatric treatment as effective as many experts claimed after the war? Were Canadians treated any differently than other Commonwealth soldiers? A Weary Road is the first comprehensive study to address these important questions. Author Mark Osborne Humphries uses research from Canadian, British and Australian archives, including hundreds of newly available hospital records and patient medical files, to provide a history of war trauma as it was experienced, treated and managed by ordinary soldiers.
- Subject
- Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Expeditionary Force
- Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Expeditionary Force
- Kanada Canadian Armed Forces
- 1900-1999
- War neuroses > Diagnosis > History > Canada > 20th century
- War neuroses > Treatment > History > Canada > 20th century
- World War, 1914-1918 > Medical care > Canada
- Combat Disorders > diagnosis
- Combat Disorders > therapy
- World War I
- Medical care
- War neuroses > Treatment
- Kriegsneurose
- Soldat
- Erster Weltkrieg
- Europe
- Canada
- Europe
- England
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-441) and index.
- Contents
- Framing shell shock : nervous illness before the Great War -- Purely shattered nerves : British and Canadian approaches to treatment, 1914-1915 -- Baptism of fire : the Ypres Salient, 1915 -- The CEF's shell shock crisis, Spring 1916 -- Treatment of evacuated cases, 1915-1916 -- The BEF's shell shock crisis on the Somme, June-November 1916 -- Managing shell shock at the Front, October 1916-June 1917 -- Illusions of success : the NYDN Centres, June-December 1917 -- Failure and retrenchment, 1917-1918.
- ISBN
- 9781442644717
- 1442644710
- LCCN
- 2018420596
- OCLC
- on1083262562
- 1083262562
- SCSB-9190356
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library