This book is one of the truly original contributions in historical writing to appear during the centenary of the outbreak of the war in 1914. The authors' central argument is that at the time of the Great War, scientists and physicians reconfigured the human body as both a living organism and a site of meaning. They developed the notion that the body was an integrated set of self‐regulating systems, the precariousness of which threatened all of us with death every single day. The authors term this the “integration–crisis duet.” Although the origins of this formulation long antedated the war, the problem of treating thousands of men who suffered from various forms of shock—wound shock, surgical shock, shell shock—brought this new configuration of the human body into high relief during and in the decades after the war. The metaphor of homeostasis, or self‐regulation, Geroulanos and Meyers claim, was so powerful that it spread well beyond the domain of physiology and medicine to facets of psychoanalysis, political thought, cybernetics, philosophy, and anthropology.

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战争中的身体

这本书是在1914年战争爆发百周年之际出现的历史著作中真正具有原创性的贡献之一。作者的中心论点是，在第一次世界大战时期，科学家和医生将人体重新构造为活生物体和有意义的场所。他们提出了这样的观念，即身体是一套完整的自我调节系统，其不稳定的危险每天威胁着我们所有人的死亡。作者将此称为“整合危机二重奏”。尽管这种说法的起源早于战争，但治疗成千上万遭受各种形式的电击（伤口电击，外科手术电击，外壳电击）的男人的问题却使人体的这种新结构在治疗过程中和治疗中获得了极大的缓解。战后数十年。