| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 263 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-254) and index. |
| Contents |
The battle that never ends -- Combat PTSD : a moving target -- Across the ages : PTSD from the Civil War to Korea -- The politics of PTSD : Vietnam -- The campaign for PTSD -- Vietnam veterans in the dock -- Breeding ground for PTSD : Iraq and Afghanistan -- The war at home : veterans in criminal court -- Women's war : the faces of PTSD -- Running the gauntlet : MST and sexual violence against women warriors -- Trials of homecoming -- Finding solutions : courts, psychiatry, and the politics of PTSD -- Epilogue : the future of PTSD. |
| Summary |
Experts anticipate that more than 350,000 veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will return to civilian life with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Barry R. Schaller, a judge and a bioethicist, chronicles the events leading to what he predicts will be the most challenging PTSD epidemic in U.S. military history. Although combat veterans have experienced similar disorders in previous wars, Schaller explains why these two contemporaneous wars in particular are a breeding ground for the condition. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Post-traumatic stress disorder -- United States.
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Disabled veterans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
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Veterans -- Mental health.
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War neuroses.
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Combat Disorders.
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Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic.
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Veterans -- legislation & jurisprudence.
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Veterans -- psychology.
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Warfare.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Veterans.
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Disabled veterans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
(OCoLC)fst00894661
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Post-traumatic stress disorder. (OCoLC)fst01072762
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Veterans -- Mental health.
(OCoLC)fst01165781
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War neuroses. (OCoLC)fst01170516
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Added Author |
Brewster, Todd.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schaller, Barry R., 1938- Veterans on trial. 1st ed. Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, ©2012 9781597976961 (DLC) 2012012981 (OCoLC)773023749 |
| ISBN |
9781597978606 (electronic bk.) |
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1597978604 (electronic bk.) |
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