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Historical person
1879–1947
Arthur John Brock was a Scottish physician, classical scholar and medical writer who worked at Craiglockhart War Hospital during the First World War. He treated officers suffering from shell shock, including Wilfred Owen, using occupational and social activity in an approach he called ergotherapy, and he also translated works of Galen.
In Pat Barker’s Regeneration, Robert Graves, Arthur John Brock and other historical figures share the narrative with invented patients and civilians, while Rivers’s humane methods are contrasted with Lewis Yealland’s coercive electrical treatment of enlisted men.
Series
The Regeneration Trilogy follows soldiers, doctors, poets and civilians during the final two years of the First World War. Its central relationship is between the neurologist and army psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers and the fictional working-class officer Billy Prior, while Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves and…
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