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The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe : Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (467 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226556628
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 610.904
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Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue: "Why Don't We Die Daily?" -- Part One -- 1. The Whole on the Verge of Collapse: Physiology's Test -- 2. The Puzzle of Wounds: Shock and the Body at War -- 3. The Visible and the Invisible: The Rise and Operationalization of Case Studies, 1915- 1919 -- Part Two -- 4. Brain Injury, Patienthood, and Nervous Integration in Sherrington, Goldstein, and Head, 1905- 1934 -- 5. Physiology Incorporates the Psyche: Digestion, Emotions, and Homeostasis in Walter Cannon, 1898- 1932 -- 6. The Organism and Its Environment: Integration, Interiority, and Individuality around 1930 -- 7. Psychoanalysis and Disintegration: W. H. R. Rivers's Endangered Self and Sigmund Freud's Death Drive -- Part Three -- 8. The Political Economy in Bodily Metaphor and the Anthropologies of Integrated Communication -- 9. Vis medicatrix, or the Fragmentation of Medical Humanism -- 10. Closure: The Individual -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Archives -- Notes -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Prologue: "Why Don't We Die Daily?" -- Part One -- 1. The Whole on the Verge of Collapse: Physiology's Test -- 2. The Puzzle of Wounds: Shock and the Body at War -- 3. The Visible and the Invisible: The Rise and Operationalization of Case Studies, 1915- 1919 -- Part Two -- 4. Brain Injury, Patienthood, and Nervous Integration in Sherrington, Goldstein, and Head, 1905- 1934 -- 5. Physiology Incorporates the Psyche: Digestion, Emotions, and Homeostasis in Walter Cannon, 1898- 1932 -- 6. The Organism and Its Environment: Integration, Interiority, and Individuality around 1930 -- 7. Psychoanalysis and Disintegration: W. H. R. Rivers's Endangered Self and Sigmund Freud's Death Drive -- Part Three -- 8. The Political Economy in Bodily Metaphor and the Anthropologies of Integrated Communication -- 9. Vis medicatrix, or the Fragmentation of Medical Humanism -- 10. Closure: The Individual -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Archives -- Notes -- Index.

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