Description
More than 16,000 Canadian soldiers suffered from shell shock during the Great War of 1914 to 1918. Despite significant interest from historians, we still know relatively little about how it was experienced, diagnosed, treated, and managed in the frontline trenches in the Canadian and British forces.
How did soldiers relate to suffering comrades? Did large numbers of shell shock cases affect the outcome of important battles? Was frontline psychiatric treatment as effective as many experts claimed after the war? Were Canadians treated any differently than other Commonwealth soldiers? A Weary Road is the first comprehensive study to address these important questions. Author Mark Osborne Humphries uses research from Canadian, British, and Australian archives, including hundreds of newly available hospital records and patient medical files, to provide a history of war trauma as it was experienced, treated, and managed by ordinary soldiers.
About the Author
Mark Osborne Humphries is the Dunkley Chair in War and the Canadian Experience, Director of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies (LCMSDS), and an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Reviews
"With A Weary Road, Humphries deftly tackles the immensely complicated topic of shell shock: how it was understood and diagnosed, the vivisions within the medical community, how treatment evlved over the course of the war, and how medical and military interests could collide."
-- David MacKenzie * Literary Review of Canada, Vol 27, no. 2 *Awards
Winner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles of 2019 awarded by the American Library Association 2019 (United States).
Book Information
ISBN 9781487525187
Author Mark Osborne Humphries
Format Paperback
Page Count 504
Imprint University of Toronto Press
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Weight(grams) 760g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm * 36mm