Author: Didier Fassin
Edition: 1
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0691137536
The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood
Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for the psychic trauma of victims--yet it has not always been so. Medical books The Empire of Trauma. The very idea of psychic trauma came into being only at the end of the nineteenth century and for a long time was treated with suspicion. The Empire of Trauma tells the story of how the traumatic victim became culturally and politically respectable, and how trauma itself became an unassailable moral category.
Basing their analysis on a wide-ranging ethnography, Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman examine the politics of reparation, testimony, and proof made possible by the recognition of trauma. They study the application of psychiatric victimology to victims of the 1995 terrorist bombings in Paris and the 2001 industrial disaster in Toulouse; the involvement of humanitarian psychiatry with both Palestinians and Israelis during the second Intifada; and the application of the psychotraumatology of exile to asylum seekers victimized by persecution and torture Medical books The Empire Of Trauma: An Inquiry Into The Condition Of Victimhood, Didier Fassin. author didier fassin author richard rechtman format paperback language english publication year 06 07 2009 subject medicine subject 2 medicine general themonsterbookshop co uk in titles description add my store to your favorites and receive my email newsletters about new items and special promotions general interest the empire of trauma an inquiry into the condition of victimhood item details title the empire of trauma an inquiry into the condition of victimhood author s didier fassin richard re
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Medical Book The Empire of Trauma
The very idea of psychic trauma came into being only at the end of the nineteenth century and for a long time was treated with suspicion. The Empire of Trauma tells the story of how the traumatic victim became culturally and politically respectable, and how trauma itself became an unassailable moral category.
Basing their analysis on a wide-ranging ethnography, Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman examine the politics of reparation, testimony, and proof made possible by the recognition of trauma. They study the application of psychiatric victimology to victims of the 1995 terrorist bombings in Paris and the 2001 industrial disaster in Toulouse; the involvement of humanitarian psychiatry with both Palestinians and Israelis during the second Intifada; and the application of the psychotraumatology of exile to asylum seekers victimized by persecution and torture.
Revealing how trauma has come to authenticate the suffering of victims, The Empire of Trauma provides critical perspective on some of the moral and political issues at stake in the contemporary world.
