Episode 22 – Shell Shock
On War & Society
English - March 01, 2019 05:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHistory News culture history interviews politics society war Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Shell shock has become a stand-in for the experience of all soldiers of the First World War. And it has also become one of the most popular topics of inquiry for historians of the First World War. Mark Humphries, associate professor history at Wilfrid Laurier University and Director of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, has contributed another addition to the ever-growing literature on the topic with his new book on shell shock in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. Looking at the experience of doctors and patients as well as the medical management system that developed overseas, he investigates how shell shock was managed and mismanaged and how the search for a solution remained elusive.
References
Mark Osborne Humphries, A Weary Road: Shell Shock in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914–1918. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018.