{"product_id":"the-empire-of-trauma-didier-fassin-9780691137537","title":"The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry Into the Condition of Victimhood","description":"\u003cp\u003eToday we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for the psychic trauma of victims--yet it has not always been so. The very idea of psychic trauma came into being only at the end of the nineteenth century and for a long time was treated with suspicion. \u003ci\u003eThe Empire of Trauma\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of how the traumatic victim became culturally and politically respectable, and how trauma itself became an unassailable moral category. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Basing their analysis on a wide-ranging ethnography, Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman examine the politics of reparation, testimony, and proof made possible by the recognition of trauma. They study the application of psychiatric victimology to victims of the 1995 terrorist bombings in Paris and the 2001 industrial disaster in Toulouse; the involvement of humanitarian psychiatry with both Palestinians and Israelis during the second Intifada; and the application of the psychotraumatology of exile to asylum seekers victimized by persecution and torture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Revealing how trauma has come to authenticate the suffering of victims, \u003ci\u003eThe Empire of Trauma\u003c\/i\u003e provides critical perspective on some of the moral and political issues at stake in the contemporary world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Didier Fassin, Richard Rechtman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691137536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691137537\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/26\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2009","brand":"Didier Fassin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946945249535,"sku":"9780691137537","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_fe37291c-59be-4281-b216-0e859fb0d35b.jpg?v=1681515850","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-empire-of-trauma-didier-fassin-9780691137537","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}