Download or read book The Empire of Trauma written by Didier Fassin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work shows how, during the 20th century, the perspective on victims of trauma shifted from suspicion to recognition. From these ethnographical fieldworks, the authors thus propose a broader perspective on the political and moral issues of contemporary societies.