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

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985921%3A_____%2F20%3A00523820" target="_blank" >RIV/67985921:_____/20:00523820 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

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

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GF17-33831L" target="_blank" >GF17-33831L: Veteráni první světové války v Československu a Rakousku 1918-1938</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Zeitgeschichte

ISSN

0256-5250

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

47

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

AT - Rakouská republika

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

15-32

Kód UT WoS článku

000524247900002

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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