The minds and nerves of soldiers : memory turns back to experiences of 1917-1918-1919: manuscript, 1940.

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Hanes, Edward L., b. 1871. The minds and nerves of soldiers : memory turns back to experiences of 1917-1918-1919: manuscript, 1940.

The minds and nerves of soldiers : memory turns back to experiences of 1917-1918-1919: manuscript, 1940.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/717486153

This is a typed manuscript copy, in two volumes, of Hanes' book which was published in 1941 by the Login Press in Pasadena, California. In it, Hanes records his personal and professional experiences serving as a medical officer during World War I. His personal war narrative includes: the transition from civilian to military life, and from his practice as a private physician to a United States Army neuropsychiatrist; his voyage by boat, foot, and train from the US to his final destination at a military hospital in Vichy, France; military life both on US and French bases, and an account of his experience living in wartime France; his reflections upon the causes and consequences of the war, and feelings about Armistice Day celebrations. Hanes' professional experiences as a military neuropsychiatrist include: his medical duties in evaluating the mental health of enlistees at an American base camp; his practice treating mentally and neurologically damaged soldiers in Vichy, France; the challenges of practicing medicine under wartime conditions with improper facilities and inadequate staff; his experience acting as a defense attorney for a soldier who had been Court Marshaled; observations on shell shock, epilepsy, and other "war neuroses," as well as physical damage to soldiers' nerves. This typed copy has inserted memorabilia and other miscellaneous material.

2 volumes, typewritten copy.

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