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Title: WORKING IN A WORLD OF HURT
TRAUMA AND RESILIENCE IN THE NARRATIVES OF MEDICAL PERSONNEL IN WARZONES
By: Carol Acton, Jane Potter
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £90.00


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ISBN 10: 1784992429
ISBN 13: 9781784992422
Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 1 July, 2015
Series: Cultural History of Modern War
Description: Focuses on doctors and nurses in wartime casualty clearing stations, hospitals and prison camps -- .
Synopsis: Working in a world of hurt fills a significant gap in the studies of the psychological trauma wrought by war. It focuses not on soldiers, but on the men and women who fought to save them in casualty clearing stations, hospitals and prison camps. The writings by doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and other medical personnel reveal the spectrum of their responses that range from breakdown to resilience. Through a rich analysis of both published and unpublished personal from the First World War in the early twentieth century to Iraq in the early twenty-first, Acton and Potter put centre stage the letters, diaries, memoirs and weblogs that have chronicled physical and emotional suffering, many for the first time. Wide-ranging in scope, interdisciplinary in method, and written in a scholarly yet accessible style, Working in a world of hurt is essential reading for lecturers and students as well as the general reader. -- .
Illustrations: Illustrations, black & white
Publication: UK
Imprint: Manchester University Press Melland Schill Studies
Returns: Non-returnable
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