Phantom suffering: amputees, stump pain and phantom sensations in modern Britain

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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