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The Empire of Trauma - An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R828
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The Empire of Trauma - An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood (Paperback, New)

Didier Fassin, Richard Rechtman; Translated by Rachel Gomme

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Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for the psychic trauma of victims--yet it has not always been so. The very idea of psychic trauma came into being only at the end of the nineteenth century and for a long time was treated with suspicion. "The Empire of Trauma" tells the story of how the traumatic victim became culturally and politically respectable, and how trauma itself became an unassailable moral category.

Basing their analysis on a wide-ranging ethnography, Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman examine the politics of reparation, testimony, and proof made possible by the recognition of trauma. They study the application of psychiatric victimology to victims of the 1995 terrorist bombings in Paris and the 2001 industrial disaster in Toulouse; the involvement of humanitarian psychiatry with both Palestinians and Israelis during the second Intifada; and the application of the psychotraumatology of exile to asylum seekers victimized by persecution and torture.

Revealing how trauma has come to authenticate the suffering of victims, "The Empire of Trauma" provides critical perspective on some of the moral and political issues at stake in the contemporary world.

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Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: July 2009
First published: 2009
Authors: Didier Fassin • Richard Rechtman
Translators: Rachel Gomme
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 305
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-13753-7
Categories: Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics
Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry
Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Accident & emergency medicine > Trauma & shock
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LSN: 0-691-13753-6
Barcode: 9780691137537

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