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TY - JOUR
T1 - The politics of trauma
T2 - Vietnam veterans and PTSD
AU - Hagopian, Patrick
PY - 2015/10/1
Y1 - 2015/10/1
N2 - The article examines the formulation of the PTSD diagnosis in relation to the history of political attitudes to the Vietnam War and the relationship between veterans and their civilian compatriots. It examines the adequacy of the concept of "moral injury" as a description of the predicament of veterans, and addresses the formulaic nature of narratives of veterans' return to the United States that are sometimes invoked by authors who discuss "moral injury."
AB - The article examines the formulation of the PTSD diagnosis in relation to the history of political attitudes to the Vietnam War and the relationship between veterans and their civilian compatriots. It examines the adequacy of the concept of "moral injury" as a description of the predicament of veterans, and addresses the formulaic nature of narratives of veterans' return to the United States that are sometimes invoked by authors who discuss "moral injury."
KW - Veterans
KW - Vietnam War
KW - PTSD
KW - War Trauma
KW - Moral Injury
KW - USA
M3 - Journal article
VL - 36
SP - 72
EP - 87
JO - Mittelweg
JF - Mittelweg
SN - 0941-6382
IS - 5
ER -