- Title
- Phantom suffering: amputees, stump pain and phantom sensations in modern Britain
- Creator
- Bourke, Joanna
- Relation
- Pain and Emotion in Modern History p. 66-89
- Relation
- Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137372437_5
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- The suffering inflicted by the First World War did not end in 1918. When Lieutenant Francis (‘Frank’) Hopkinson died on 17 December 1974, he was 85 years of age and had lived over half a century in severe pain as a result of having been wounded during the Third Battle of Ypres on 12 August 1917. He had undergone numerous operations, including having his left leg amputated three times. He had also been hospitalised with shell shock. From those terrifying months in 1917 and 1918 until his death in 1974, he endured profound physical and mental anguish due to an agonisingly tender stump and phantom limb pain.
- Subject
- osteoarthritis; xylocaine; trench; ghost; barbiturate
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1355927
- Identifier
- uon:31565
- Identifier
- ISBN: 9781349476138
- Language
- eng
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