Weary Warriors Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers [Hardcover]

As seen in military documents, medical journals, novels, films, television shows, and memoirs, soldiers invisible wounds are not innate cracks in individual psyches that break under the stress of war. Instead, the generation of weary warriors is caught up in wider social and political networks and institutionsfamilies, activist groups, government bureaucracies, welfare state programsmediated through a military hierarchy, psychiatry rooted in mind-body sciences, and various cultural constructs of masculinity. This book offers a history of military psychiatry from the American Civil War to the latest Afghanistan conflict. The authors trace the effects of power and knowledge in relation to the emotional and psychological trauma that shapes soldiers bodies, minds, and souls, developing an extensive account of the emergence, diagnosis, and treatment of soldiers invisible wounds.

Michael J. Princeis Lansdowne Professor of Social Policy at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He is author ofAbsent Citizens: Disability Politics and Policy in Canada(University of Toronto Press, 2009), author and co-editor with Glen Toner and Leslie Pal ofPolicy: From Ideas to Implementation(McGill-Queens University Press, 2010), co-author with Bruce Doern ofThree Bio-Realms(University of Toronto Press, 2012), and co-author with James Rice ofChanging Politics of Canadian Social Policy, 2nd edition(University of Toronto Press, 2013).

List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction:Weary Warriors Walk Among Us: Combat, Knowledge Circulation, and Naming Traumatized Soldiers

Chapter 1.Ravished Minds and Ill Bodies: Power, Embodiment,Dispositifs

Chapter 2.Unsettling Notions: War Neuroses, Soldiering, and Broken Embodiments
Chapter 3.Classifying Bodies through Diagnosis: Knowledges, Locations, andlC>