Body and Mind
Historical Essays in Honour of F. B. Smith

Graeme Davison (Edited by), Patricia Jalland (Edited by), Wilfrid Prest (Edited by)

9780522857177

Paperback / softback, published 15 July 2009

256 pages
21 x 13.8 x 1.6 cm, 0.312 kg

Body and Mind pays tribute to one of Australia's most outstanding and influential historians, F. B. (Barry) Smith. Barry has made pioneering contributions to the political, social and cultural histories of Britain and Australia, and these essays range across the fields he made his own, especially the interconnected histories of medicine (body) and ideas (mind). The editors bring together several generations of Barry's admirers, colleagues, friends and pupils, including Joanna Bourke writing on war and industrial trauma, Peter Edwards on the Agent Orange controversy, Pat Jalland on death in the London Blitz and Phillipa Mein Smith on the idea of Australasia. ""Body and Mind"" is a salute to the inestimable work, and the life and times of F. B. Smith.