THE INVISIBLE INJURED
McGill-Queens/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
SERIES EDITORS: J.T.H. Connor and Erika Dyck
Volumes in this series have financial support from Associated Medical Services, Inc. (AMS). Associated Medical Services Inc. was established in 1936 by Dr Jason Hannah as a pioneer prepaid not-for-profit health care organization in Ontario. With the advent of medicare, AMS became a charitable organization supporting innovations in academic medicine and health services, specifically the history of medicine and health care, as well as innovations in health professional education and bioethics.
1 Home Medicine
The Newfoundland Experience
John K. Crellin
2 A Long Way from Home
The Tuberculosis Epidemic among the Inuit
Pat Sandiford Grygier
3 Labrador Odyssey
The Journal and Photographs of Eliot Curwen on the Second Voyage of Wilfred Grenfell, 1893
Ronald Rompkey
4 Architecture in the Family Way
Doctors, Houses, and Women, 18701900
Annmarie Adams
5 Local Hospitals in Ancien Rgime France
Rationalization, Resistance, Renewal, 15301789
Daniel Hickey
6 Foisted upon the Government?
State Responsibilities, Family Obligations, and the Care of the Dependent Aged in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
Edgar-Andr Montigny
7 A Young Mans Benefit
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Sickness Insurance in the United States and Canada, 18601929
George Emery and J.C. Herbert Emery
8 The Weariness, the Fever, and the Fret
The Campaign against Tuberculosis in Canada, 19001950
Katherine McCuaig
9 The War Diary of Clare Gass, 19151918
Edited by Susan Mann
10 Committed to the State Asylum
Insanity and Society in Nineteenth-Century Quebec and Ontario
James E. Moran
11 Jessie Luther at the Grenfell Mission
Edited by Ronald Rompkey
12 Negotiating Disease
Power and Cancer Care, 19001950
Barbara Clow
13 For Patients of Moderate Means
A Social History of the Voluntary Public General Hospital in Canada, 18901950
David Gagan and Rosemary Gagan
14 Into the House of Old
A History of Residential Care in British Columbia
Megan J. Davies
15 St Marys
The History of a London Teaching Hospital
E.A. Heaman
16 Women, Health, and Nation
Canada and the United States since 1945
Edited by Georgina Feldberg, Molly Ladd-Taylor, Alison Li, and Kathryn McPherson
17 The Labrador Memoir of Dr Henry Paddon, 19121938
Edited by Ronald Rompkey
18 J.B. Collip and the Development of Medical Research in Canada
Extracts and Enterprise
Alison Li
19 The Ontario Cancer Institute
Successes and Reverses at Sherbourne Street
E.A. McCulloch
20 Island Doctor
John Mackieson and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Prince Edward Island
David A.E. Shephard
21 The Struggle to Serve
A History of the Moncton Hospital, 1895 to 1953
W.G. Godfrey
22 An Element of Hope
Radium and the Response to Cancer in Canada, 19001940
Charles Hayter
23 Labour in the Laboratory
Medical Laboratory Workers in the Maritimes, 19001950
Peter L. Twohig
24 Rockefeller Foundation Funding and Medical Education in Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax Marianne P. Fedunkiw
25 Push!
The Struggle for Midwifery in Ontario
Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
26 Mental Health and Canadian Society
Historical Perspectives
Edited by James Moran and David Wright
27 SARS in Context
Memory, History, and Policy
Edited by Jacalyn Duffin and Arthur Sweetman
28 Lyndhurst
Canadas First Rehabilitation Centre for People with Spinal Cord Injuries, 19451998
Geoffrey Reaume
29 J. Wendell Macleod
Saskatchewans Red Dean
Louis Horlick
30 Who Killed the Queen?
The Story of a Community Hospital and How to Fix Public Health Care
Holly Dressel
31 Healing the Worlds Children
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health in the Twentieth Century
Edited by Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, and George Weisz
32 A Canadian Surgeon in the Army of the Potomac
Francis M. Wafer
Edited by Cheryl A. Wells
33 A Sadly Troubled History
The Meanings of Suicide in the Modern Age
John Weaver
34 SARS Unmasked
Risk Communication of Pandemics and Influenza in Canada
Michael G. Tyshenko with assistance from Cathy Patterson
35 Tuberculosis Then and Now
Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease
Edited by Flurin Condrau and Michael Worboys
36 Caregiving on the Periphery
Historical Perspectives on Nursing and Midwifery in Canada
Edited by Myra Rutherdale
37 Infection of the Innocents
Wet Nurses, Infants, and Syphilis in France, 17801900
Joan Sherwood
38 The Fluorspar Mines of Newfoundland
Their History and the Epidemic of Radiation Lung Cancer
John Martin
39 Small Matters
Canadian Children in Sickness and Health, 19001940
Mona Gleason
40 Sorrows of a Century
Interpreting Suicide in New Zealand, 19002000
John C. Weaver
41 The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima
Science, Race, and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru
Jos R. Jouve Martn
42 Bodily Subjects
Essays on Gender and Health, 18002000
Edited by Tracy Penny Light, Barbara Brookes, and Wendy Mitchinson
43 Expelling the Plague
The Health Office and the Implementation of Quarantine in Dubrovnik, 13771533
Zlata Blaina Tomi and Vesna Blaina
44 Telling the Flesh
Life Writing, Citizenship and the Body in the Letters to Samuel Auguste Tissot
Sonja Boon
45 Mobilizing Mercy
A History of the Canadian Red Cross
Sarah Glassford
46 The Invisible Injured
Psychological Trauma in the Canadian Military from the First World War to Afghanistan
Adam Montgomery
THE INVISIBLE INJURED
Psychological Trauma
in the Canadian Military
from the First World War to Afghanistan
ADAM MONTGOMERY
McGill-Queens University Press
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McGill-Queens University Press 2017
ISBN 978-0-7735-4995-1 (cloth)
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This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
McGill-Queens University Press acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Montgomery, Adam, 1982, author
The invisible injured : psychological trauma in the Canadian military from the First World War to Afghanistan / Adam Montgomery.
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