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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Geroulános, Stéfanos I. (1940-....). Auteur du texte
Meyers, Todd (1973-....)
Titre(s) : The human body in the age of catastrophe [Texte imprimé] : brittleness, integration, science, and the Great War / Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers
Publication : Chicago : The University of Chicago press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-419 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 331-407
The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How
could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the
same wound lead one soldier to die but allow another to recover? Stefanos Geroulanos
and Todd Meyers uncover a fascinating story of how medical scientists came to conceptualize
the body as an integrated yet brittle whole. Responding to the harrowing experience
of the Great War, the medical community sought conceptual frameworks to understand
bodily shock, brain injury, and the wildly divergence between patients. Geroulanos
and Meyers carefully trace how this emerging constellation of concepts became essential
for thinking about integration, individuality, fragility, and collapse far beyond
medicine: in fields as diverse as anthropology, political economy, psychoanalysis,
and cybernetics. Moving effortlessly between the history of medicine and intellectual
history, The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe is an intriguing look into the conceptual
underpinnings of the world the Great War ushered in
Sujet(s) : Guerre mondiale (1914-1918) -- Influence
Médecine -- XXe siècle
Physiologie -- XXe siècle
Corps humain -- Aspect symbolique
Indice(s) Dewey : 610.904 (23e éd.) = Médecine et santé - 1900-1999
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226556451. - ISBN 022655645X (rel.). - ISBN 9780226556628 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb455895901
Notice n° :
FRBNF45589590
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Table des matières : Prologue: "Why don't we die daily?" -- ; Part one.. The whole on the verge of collapse: physiology's test -- ; The puzzle of wounds: shock and the body at war -- ; The visible and the invisible: the rise and operationalization of case studies, 1915-1919 -- ; Part two.. Brain injury, patienthood, and nervous integration in Sherrington, Goldstein, and Head, 1905-1934 -- ; Physiology incorportes the psyche: digetion, emotions, and homeostasis in Walter Cannon, 1898-1932 -- ; The organism and its environment: integration, interiority, and individuality around 1930 -- ; Part Three.. The political economy in bodily metaphor and the anthropologies of integrated communication -- ; Vis medicatrix, or the fragmentation of medical humanism -- ; Closure: the individual.