“Minds the Dead Have Ravished”:<sup>1</sup> Shell Shock, History, and the Ecology of Disease-Systems

Feudtner, Chris

doi:10.1177/007327539303100402

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“…The term shell shock, for example, tied to the first world war, expressed the experience of trench warfare and its features (contractures, tremor, loss of speech) and conveyed something of the heightened stress that men endured. 11 12…”

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confidence: 99%

Post-combat syndromes from the Boer war to the Gulf war: a cluster analysis of their nature and attribution

Jones

Hodgins-Vermaas²,

McCartney³

et al. 2002

BMJ

135

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Post-combat syndromes from the Boer war to the Gulf war: a cluster analysis of their nature and attribution

Jones

Hodgins-Vermaas²,

McCartney³

et al. 2002

BMJ

135

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“…SHELL SHOCK Shell shock caught the popular imagination and has become a synonym for the hardships and trauma of trench warfare (Feudtner 1993;Shephard 1996). There is no accepted definition, though the Southborough Committee, appointed in 1920 to prevent any future epidemic of shell shock, came the closest: emotional shock, either acute in men with a neuropathic predisposition, or developing as a result of prolonged strain and terrifying experience, the final breakdown being sometimes brought about by some relatively trivial cause.…”

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Historical approaches to post-combat disorders

Jones¹

2006

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Almost every major war in the last century involving western nations has seen combatants diagnosed with a form of post-combat disorder. Some took a psychological form (exhaustion, combat fatigue, combat stress reaction and post-traumatic stress disorder), while others were characterized by medically unexplained symptoms (soldier's heart, effort syndrome, shell shock, non-ulcer dyspepsia, effects of Agent Orange and Gulf War Syndrome). Although many of these disorders have common symptoms, the explanations attached to them showed considerable diversity often reflected in the labels themselves. These causal hypotheses ranged from the effects of climate, compressive forces released by shell explosions, side effects of vaccinations, changes in diet, toxic effects of organophosphates, oil-well fires or depleted-uranium munitions. Military history suggests that these disorders, which coexisted in the civilian population, reflected popular health fears and emerged in the gaps left by the advance of medical science. While the current Iraq conflict has yet to produce a syndrome typified by medically unexplained symptoms, it is unlikely that we have seen the last of post-combat disorders as past experience suggests that they have the capacity to catch both military planners and doctors by surprise.

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“…However, it became increasingly difficult to ignore the scope of mental breakdown following the mass devastation of the Battle of the Somme, in particular among the British forces (Bogacz, 1989;Feudtner, 1993;War Office Committee, 1922). Such breakdowns could be caused not only by acute trauma but also by accumulating stresses and strains of life in the war zone.…”

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Somatoform Dissociation in Traumatized World War I Combat Soldiers

Hart

Dijke

Son

et al. 2001

Journal of Trauma & Dissociation

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“Minds the Dead Have Ravished”:¹ Shell Shock, History, and the Ecology of Disease-Systems

Cited by 18 publications

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Post-combat syndromes from the Boer war to the Gulf war: a cluster analysis of their nature and attribution

Post-combat syndromes from the Boer war to the Gulf war: a cluster analysis of their nature and attribution

Historical approaches to post-combat disorders

Somatoform Dissociation in Traumatized World War I Combat Soldiers

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“Minds the Dead Have Ravished”:1 Shell Shock, History, and the Ecology of Disease-Systems

Cited by 18 publications

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Post-combat syndromes from the Boer war to the Gulf war: a cluster analysis of their nature and attribution

Post-combat syndromes from the Boer war to the Gulf war: a cluster analysis of their nature and attribution

Historical approaches to post-combat disorders

Somatoform Dissociation in Traumatized World War I Combat Soldiers

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“Minds the Dead Have Ravished”:¹ Shell Shock, History, and the Ecology of Disease-Systems