The Empire of Trauma

Didier Fassin, Richard Rechtman

Princeton University Press, 2009

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Tells the story of how the traumatic victim became culturally and politically respectable, and how trauma itself became an unassailable moral category. Revealing how trauma has come to authenticate the suffering of victims, this title provides critical perspective on some of the moral and political issues at stake in the contemporary world.

ISBN-13
9780691137537
ISBN-10
0691137536
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2009
Publication date
2009-07-26
Pages
320
Dimensions
233x154x19
Weight
490