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Book SynopsisMark Osborne Humphries uses patient records and official army files from Canadian, British and Australian archives to examine war trauma as it was experienced, treated and managed in the frontlines of the British and Canadian forces during the First World War.
Trade Review"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 *
Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Framing Shell Shock: Nervous Illness before the Great War 2 Purely Shattered Nerves: British and Canadian Approaches to Treatment, 1914–1915 3 Baptism of Fire: The Ypres Salient, 1915 4 The CEF’s Shell Shock Crisis, Spring 1916 5 Treatment of Evacuated Cases, 1915–1916 6 The BEF’s Shell Shock Crisis on the Somme, June–November 1916 7 Managing Shell Shock at the Front, October 1916-June 1917 8 Illusions of Success: The NYDN Centres, June–December 1917 9 Failure and Retrenchment, 1917–1918 Conclusion Appendix A: Special Shell Shock Hospitals and NYDN Centres in Army Areas Appendix B: A Note on First World War Medical Sources Notes Bibliography Index
