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Bennette Rebecca Ayako <1973-> |
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Diagnosing dissent : hysterics, deserters, and conscientious objectors in Germany during World War One / / Rebecca Ayako Bennette |
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Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 pages) : map |
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Collana |
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Cornell scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Military psychiatry - Germany - History - 20th century |
World War, 1914-1918 - Psychological aspects |
Soldiers - Germany - Psychology |
War neuroses - Germany - History - 20th century |
World War, 1914-1918 - Desertions - Germany - Psychological aspects |
World War, 1914-1918 - Conscientious objectors - Germany - Psychology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2020. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Antecedents : Psychiatry, the Military, and Pacifism in Late Imperial Germany -- Hysterics and Other Patients : Diagnosis, Treatment, and Negotiation -- Deserters : Delinquency, Psychological Disorder, and Dissent -- Conscientious Objectors : Objects of Examination and Epilogue. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Although physicians during World War I, and scholars since, have addressed the idea of disorders such as shell shock as inchoate flights into sickness by men unwilling to cope with war's privations, they have given little attention to the agency many soldiers actually possessed to express dissent in a system that medicalized it. In Germany, these men were called Kriegszitterer, or 'war tremblers,' for their telltale symptom of uncontrollable shaking. Based on archival research that constitutes the largest study of psychiatric patient files from 1914 to 1918, 'Diagnosing Dissent' examines the important space that wartime psychiatry provided soldiers expressing objection to the war. Rebecca Ayako Bennette argues that the treatment of these soldiers was far less dismissive of real ailments and more conducive to individual |
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