Working in a world of hurt

Working in a world of hurt

by Jane PotterCarol Acton Bertrand Taithe and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/07/2015

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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 Through a rich analysis of both published and unpublished personal from the First World War in the early twentieth century to Iraq in the early twenty-first, Acton and Potter put centre stage the letters, diaries,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.

ISBN:
9781784992422
9781784992422
Category:
History of medicine
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-07-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
Peter Gatrell

Peter Gatrell is a renowned historian of modern migration and a Professor of Economic History at the University of Manchester.

He is the author of six previous books on migration history and modern European history, including The Making of the Modern Refugee and A Whole Empire Walking- Refugees in Russia during World War I. He lives in Manchester.

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