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Ptsd: Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America Hardcover - 2013

by Jerry Lembcke


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This book offers a historical and cultural study of war-trauma diagnoses dating from Shell Shock in WWI, through its reformulation as PTSD in the post-Vietnam War years, and then to its enhancement with traumatic brain injury in the twenty-first century.

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  • Title Ptsd: Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America
  • Author Jerry Lembcke
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 234
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Lexington Books, a
  • Date 2013-12-11
  • ISBN 9780739186244 / 0739186248
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6.1 x 1.1 in (22.61 x 15.49 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Sociological
  • Library of Congress subjects War - Psychological aspects, Veterans - Diseases - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013041560
  • Dewey Decimal Code 616.852

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About the author

Jerry Lembcke is associate professor emeritus of sociology at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts. His authored books include: The Splitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam, and Hanoi Jane: War, Sex and Fantasies of Betrayal.
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