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Traumatic Pasts in Asia

History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present

Mark S. Micale, Hans Pols (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
406 Seiten
2021
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-183-7 (ISBN)
179,95 inkl. MwSt
Traumatic Pasts in Asia extends Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, explores how these new terrains of investigation inform and enrich earlier understandings.
In the early twenty-first century, trauma is seemingly everywhere, whether as experience, diagnosis, concept, or buzzword. Yet even as many scholars consider trauma to be constitutive of psychological modernity or the post-Enlightenment human condition, historical research on the topic has overwhelmingly focused on cases, such as World War I or the Holocaust, in which Western experiences and actors are foregrounded. There remains an urgent need to incorporate the methods and insights of recent historical trauma research into a truly global perspective. The chapters in Traumatic Pasts in Asia make just such an intervention, extending Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, exploring how these new domains of research inform and enrich earlier scholarship.

Mark S. Micale is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. His publications include Beyond the Unconscious, Discovering the History of Psychiatry (Roy Porter, co-editor; Princeton University Press, 1993), Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations (Princeton University Press, 1995), The Mind of Modernism (Stanford University Press, 2004), and Hysterical Men (Harvard University Press, 2008).

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgements



Introduction: History, Trauma, and Asia

Hans Pols and Mark S. Micale



Chapter 1. Tropical Stupor? An Investigation into Patients Affected by Earthquakes and Tropical Weather in Colonial Taiwan

Harry Yi‐Jui Wu



Chapter 2. Male Hysteria in Modern Japan: Trauma, Masculinity, and Military Psychiatry during the Asia-Pacific War

Eri Nakamura



Chapter 3. Atomic Trauma: Japanese Psychiatry in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Ran Zwigenberg



Chapter 4. “Yankee Style Trauma”: The Korean War and the Americanization of Psychiatry in the Republic of Korea

Jennifer Yum Park



Chapter 5. “No PTSD in Vietnam”: Psychological Trauma, Psychic Shock, and the Biology of War Suffering in the Context of the American War

Narquis Barak



Chapter 6. Psychological Trauma and Suffering in Long Distance Friendships Involving Political Prisoners in Indonesia

Vannessa Hearman



Chapter 7. Haunting and Recovery in Post–Khmer Rouge Cambodia

Caroline Bennett



Chapter 8. A Field of Happiness: Space, Trauma, and Dealing with Existential Precarity among China's Sent-Down Youth

Hua Wu



Chapter 9. Performing Songs as Healing the Trauma of the 1965 Anti-Communist Killings in Indonesia

Dyah Pitaloka and Mohan J. Dutta



Chapter 10. Healing Our Sacrifice: Trauma and Translation in the Burmese Democracy Movement

Seinenu M. Thein-Lemelson



Chapter 11. Beyond PTSD: Politics of Visibility in a Kashmiri Clinic

Saiba Varma



Chapter 12. War Memorials: Materializing Traumatic Pasts and Constructing Memories of the Asia-Pacific War

Maki Kimura



Afterword: Traumatic Pasts, Haunting Futures

Byron J. Good



Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-80073-183-3 / 1800731833
ISBN-13 978-1-80073-183-7 / 9781800731837
Zustand Neuware
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