Objetivo This project is an anthropological study of combat trauma in three Western nations: Israel, the United States, and the Netherlands. Trauma means different things to different actors, and acquires a different value (both economic and social) in different therapeutic settings. Research will examine how clinical notions of combat trauma are established, adapted, resisted or internalized in different nations. It will result in a comparative framework for understanding how combat trauma is shaped by two major modern institutions: the military and psychiatry. Methodologically, it combines ethnographic fieldwork with veterans, research on clinical practices, and analysis of the policies and discourses that institutionalize combat trauma. Unusual within trauma studies, it aims to shed light on potentially conflicting values about violence and suffering in military and psychiatric instiutions, which may be less apparent to researchers trained within those institutions. By analyzing how veterans and clinicians perceive ethnicity, it will also contribute to understanding of the experiences of subordinate ethnic groups in military and psychiatric institutions. It is expected to identify key problems in the delivery of good care to veterans and have an impact on policy and healthcare. Theoretically, it will advance studies of biopolitics and medicalization. Existing theories tend to minimize how patients contest clinical models of illness. The moral significance of violence in combat trauma may, however, create particular kinds of resistance to clinical illness models – an issue that has not been previously addressed. This study will make a major contribution to understanding how war related suffering is internalized and institutionalized as clinical illness. It will also advance social science studies of psychiatry during a time when the field is undergoing a major and controversial move towards a biological approach to mental illness. Ámbito científico medical and health sciencesclinical medicinepsychiatrysocial sciencessociologyanthropologyethnologysocial sciencessociologyanthropologyscience and technology studiessocial sciencessociologyanthropologysocial anthropology Programa(s) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Tema(s) ERC-SG-SH2 - ERC Starting Grant - Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour Convocatoria de propuestas ERC-2012-StG_20111124 Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoria Régimen de financiación ERC-SG - ERC Starting Grant Institución de acogida THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Aportación de la UE € 1 471 813,32 Dirección OLD COLLEGE, SOUTH BRIDGE EH8 9YL Edinburgh Reino Unido Ver en el mapa Región Scotland Eastern Scotland Edinburgh Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Investigador principal Alexander Bangs Edmonds (Dr.) Contacto administrativo Sue Coleman (Ms.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos Beneficiarios (2) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Reino Unido Aportación de la UE € 1 471 813,32 Dirección OLD COLLEGE, SOUTH BRIDGE EH8 9YL Edinburgh Ver en el mapa Región Scotland Eastern Scotland Edinburgh Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Investigador principal Alexander Bangs Edmonds (Dr.) Contacto administrativo Sue Coleman (Ms.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM La participación finalizó Países Bajos Aportación de la UE € 20 272,68 Dirección SPUI 21 1012WX Amsterdam Ver en el mapa Región West-Nederland Noord-Holland Groot-Amsterdam Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contacto administrativo Jose Komen (Ms.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos