Challenges for Science, Threats to the Nation. Austrian and Czech War Neurotics as Examples of a Transnational History of Trauma (1914–1938)

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.14220/zsch.2020.47.1.15" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.14220/zsch.2020.47.1.15</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14220/zsch.2020.47.1.15" target="_blank" >10.14220/zsch.2020.47.1.15</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Challenges for Science, Threats to the Nation. Austrian and Czech War Neurotics as Examples of a Transnational History of Trauma (1914–1938)

Original language description

The article deals with the scholarly and popular treatment of war-related mental disorders in interwar Austria and Czechoslovakia. It follows the psychiatric discourse on this issue, as well as broader discussions related to interwar social provisioning for the war disabled. It shows that, despite the different outcomes of the war for the two states, similarities prevailed. In both countries, medical experts observed neurotic soldiers with suspicion and did not view them through the prism of medicine, but in relation to the financial constraints pertaining in the period of post-war reconstruction. Hence, war-related neurotic disorders became the object of exclusionary welfare provisions rather than of psychiatric care. In both countries, the veterans were pushed to the margins of the respective welfare systems and they were often publicly stigmatized as unnecessarily complicating post-war reconstruction. Later in the interwar period, war-related neurotic disorders were placed within a nationalizing framework in both states, which regarded the neurotic ex-servicemen as endangering the nation or as a potential problem for future military mobilization. The discourse of degeneration enabled both countries to cast out those with neurotic disorders from the nation and thus to portray affected veterans as a “danger” to the national community.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GF17-33831L" target="_blank" >GF17-33831L: WWI Veterans in Czechoslovakia and Austria 1918-38</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Zeitgeschichte

ISSN

0256-5250

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

47

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

AT - AUSTRIA

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

15-32

UT code for WoS article

000524247900002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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