Traumatic Pasts in Asia

History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present

406 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In the early twenty-first century, trauma is seemingly everywhere, whether as experience, diagnosis, concept, or buzzword. Yet even as many scholars consider trauma to be constitutive of psychological modernity or the post-Enlightenment human condition, historical research on the topic has overwhelmingly focused on cases, such as World War I or the Holocaust, in which Western experiences and actors are foregrounded. There remains an urgent need to incorporate the methods and insights of recent historical trauma research into a truly global perspective. The chapters in Traumatic Pasts in Asia make just such an intervention, extending Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, exploring how these new domains of research inform and enrich earlier scholarship.

• Themen: Medizin Medizin / Gesundheitswesen, allgemein Geschichte der Medizin
• ISBN: 9781805391500
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.02.2024
• Größe: 226 x 151 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Hans Pols, Mark S Micale