Description
Product ID: | 9780712667838 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | A War Of Nerves |
Authors: | Author: Ben Shephard |
Page Count: | 528 |
Subjects: | General and world history, General & world history, History, History: specific events and topics, Military institutions, Psychiatry, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, History: specific events & topics, Military life & institutions, Psychiatry, 20th century |
Description: | Select Guide Rating I cannot imagine what has got into the central nervous system of the men.'A War of Nerves is a history of military psychiatry in the twentieth century - an authoritative, accessible account drawing on a vast range of diaries, interviews, medical papers and official records. ''I wish you could be here," the Oxford Professor of Medicine wrote to a friend in 1915, "in this orgy of neuroses and psychoses and gaits and paralyses. I cannot imagine what has got into the central nervous system of the men.'' |
Imprint Name: | Pimlico |
Publisher Name: | Vintage |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2002-02-07 |