Ana Carden-Coyne, The Politics of Wounds: Military Patients and Medical Power in the First World War

Baldoli, Claudia; Petrella, Luigi

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“…For some recent studies related to the history of WWI disabled soldiers, see Anderson, 2011;Bourke, 1996;Cohen, 2001;Collard, 2014;Gerber, 2012;Larsson, 2009;Perry, 2014;Carden-Coyne, 2014;Gerber, 2012;Linker, 2011;Verstraete, Salvante & Anderson (2015). Studies like these make clear how the rehabilitative discourse regarding the mutilated soldier substantially differed between nations and regions.…”

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2023

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Since the late twentieth century, disability history has grown out of its infancy. Scholars from a variety of backgrounds have increasingly become convinced of the value of looking at the past through the lens of disability. Many studies have focused on the constructed nature of disability and thus deliberately tried to deconstruct contemporary distinctions between able-bodied and disabled individuals. By positively revaluing the particular position of the individual with disabilities on the basis of historical narratives, an attempt was made to counter ongoing tendencies of discrimination and oppression. In this article, we would like to remind the reader of another approach which sometimes runs the danger of being snowed under, namely a historical venture that seeks to uncover commonalities: places where the distinctions between persons with and without disabilities are temporarily forgotten and/ or erased, moments when the boundaries between the self and the other are being reconfigured. In order to do so, we will draw on an influential discourse from the history of disability itself: the discourse of rehabilitation. Going back to the early twentieth century, we will present the work of French scientist Jules Mardochée Amar and two Belgian disabled soldiers from the First World War. Amar's ideas on rehabilitation would prove influential for the actual practices of rehabilitation during and after the war. The two Belgian disabled soldiers were retrained in a professional institute for rehabilitation established by the Belgian government in the north of France. By juxtaposing Amar's discourse with the experiences of the two Belgian soldiers, we will demonstrate how, besides the discursive individual of rehabilitation, one also can find moments when that individual is absorbed by a real and tangible commonality. As a consequence, everybody -whether able-bodied citizen or mutilated soldier-becomes part of a community of equals.

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“…4,25 Given the prevalence of both patient and professional concerns over the stigma of chronic pain and the tendency within military hospitals to encourage stoic acceptance of pain, one unexpected finding of this review was that the potential for untreated chronic pain to affect a patient's mental health was recognised and discussed amongst clinicians from the beginning of this period: neuropathic pain was noted to be "particularly intolerable and apt to undermine the mental stability in a remarkable way." 13,20 The psychological aspects of chronic pain were acknowledged from the beginning of the period and throughout, with surgeons warning "against too readily ascribing to hysteria the terrible sufferings of many cases of nerve injury" as "prolonged pain from any cause can lead to the development of psychic changes and increased susceptibility to all painful stimuli: resistance is diminished by suffering." 14,16 The importance of the patient's state of mind during treatment and of a good doctor/patient relationship was noted by multiple authors across both journals.…”

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“…Of all injuries amongst British soldiers in the First World War that were not immediately fatal, an overall proportion of 13% resulted in amputation. 20 These numbers are unequalled by any subsequent conflict. For comparison, the Second World War led to approximately 12,000 British amputee veterans and the most recent Afghanistan conflict resulted in 302 UK service personnel undergoing one or more traumatic or surgical amputations between 2001 and 2020 (a total of 0.2% of the 150,610 British personnel who served in Afghanistan).…”

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“I did not expect the doctor to treat a ghost”: a systematic review of published reports regarding chronic postamputation pain in British First World War veterans

Dixon Smith,

Aldington,

Hay

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Limb trauma remains the most prevalent survivable major combat injury. In the First World War, more than 700,000 British soldiers received limb wounds and more than 41,000 underwent an amputation, creating one of the largest amputee cohorts in history. Postamputation pain affects up to 85% of military amputees, suggesting that up to 33,000 British First World War veterans potentially reported postamputation pain. This qualitative systematic review explores the professional medical conversation around clinical management of chronic postamputation pain in this patient cohort, its development over the 20th century, and how this information was disseminated among medical professionals. We searched The Lancet and British Medical Journal archives (1914–1985) for reports referring to postamputation pain, its prevalence, mechanisms, descriptors, or clinical management. Participants were First World War veterans with a limb amputation, excluding civilians and veterans of all other conflicts. The search identified 9809 potentially relevant texts, of which 101 met the inclusion criteria. Reports emerged as early as 1914 and the discussion continued over the next 4 decades. Unexpected findings included early advocacy of multidisciplinary pain management, concerns over addiction, and the effect of chronic pain on mental health emerging decades earlier than previously thought. Chronic postamputation pain is still a significant issue for military rehabilitation. Similarities between injury patterns in the First World War and recent Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts mean that these historical aspects remain relevant to today's military personnel, clinicians, researchers, and policymakers.

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Ana Carden-Coyne, The Politics of Wounds: Military Patients and Medical Power in the First World War

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“I did not expect the doctor to treat a ghost”: a systematic review of published reports regarding chronic postamputation pain in British First World War veterans

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