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Article: The Irritable Heart of Soldiers and the Origins of Anglo-American Cardiology: The U.S. Civil War 1861 to World War I 1918.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2004
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Charles F. Wooley. The Irritable Heart of Soldiers and the Origins of Anglo-American Cardiology: The U. S. Civil War (1861) to World War I (1918). (The History of Medicine in Context.) Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. xvi, 321. $99.95. ISBN 0-7546-0595-7.
Shell shock was the most historically visible affliction of the millions of young men who endured the trenches and slaughter of World War I. Historians have used it for a variety of analytical purposes, including its importance for the development of modern psychiatry. Although originally perceived as the consequence of physical trauma to the nervous system, shell shock was by the end of the war generally ...