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Invisible Wounds - Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,375
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Invisible Wounds - Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers (Hardcover): Dillon Carroll

Invisible Wounds - Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers (Hardcover)

Dillon Carroll

Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War

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Dillon J. Carroll's Invisible Wounds examines the effects of military service, particularly combat, on the psyches and emotional well-being of Civil War soldiers-Black and white, North and South. Soldiers faced harsh military discipline, arduous marches, poor rations, debilitating diseases, and the terror of battle, all of which took a severe psychological toll. While mental collapses sometimes occurred during the war, the emotional damage soldiers incurred more often became apparent in the postwar years, when it manifested itself in disturbing and self-destructive behavior. Carroll explores the dynamic between the families of mentally ill veterans and the superintendents of insane asylums, as well as between those superintendents and doctors in the nascent field of neurology, who increasingly believed the central nervous system or cultural and social factors caused mental illness. Invisible Wounds is a sweeping reevaluation of the mental damage inflicted by the nation's most tragic conflict.

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Imprint: Louisiana State University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
Release date: November 2021
Authors: Dillon Carroll
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-6966-7
Categories: Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
Books > Humanities > History > American history > 1800 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Care of the mentally ill
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Civil war
Books > History > American history > 1800 to 1900
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
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LSN: 0-8071-6966-8
Barcode: 9780807169667

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