Weary warriors : : power, knowledge, and the invisible wounds of soldiers / / Pamela Moss, Michael J. Prince.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:New York : : Berghahn Books,, 2014.
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 270 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Weary Warriors Walk among Us: Combat, Knowledge Circulation, and Naming Traumatized Soldiers; Chapter 1 - Ravished Minds and Ill Bodies: Power, Embodiment, Disposis; Chapter 2 - Unsettling Notions: War Neuroses, Soldiering, and Broken Embodiments; Chapter 3 - Classifying Bodies through Diagnosis: Knowledges, Locations, and Categorical Enclosures; Chapter 4 - Managing Illness through Power: Regulation, Resistance, and Truth Games; Chapter 5 - Cultural Accounts of the Soldier as Subject: Folds, Disclosures, and Enactments
  • Chapter 6 - Fixing Soldiers: The Treatment of Bodies, Minds, and Souls Chapter 7 - The Soldier in Context: Psychiatric Practices, Military Imperatives, and Masculine Ideals; Chapter 8 - Soldiering On: Care of Self, Status Passages, and Citizenship Claims; Chapter 9 - Military Bodies and Battles Multiple: Embodied Trauma, Ontological Politics, and Patchwork Warriors; References; Index