Название: Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War: Geographies of Care
Автор: Marie Allitt
Издательство: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474489923
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 264
Размер: 6,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book offers a novel critical intervention in medical humanities, foregrounding the importance of spaces and senses in medical experiences. It explores the distinctive experience and literary representations of somatic and sensuous geographies in First World War medical caregiving life writing. It demonstrates the complex situation of the medic, who is vulnerable both vicariously and directly to the effects of physical and psychological harm.