Jerry Lembcke

Gebundenes Buch

Ptsd

Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America

Beschreibung

PTSD: Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America is 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. In the context of American defeats in war, PTSD has morphed from a socially-constructed diagnostic category into a political and cultural trope with implications for American masculinity and national identity.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780739186244
• ISBN-10: 0739186248
• Artikelnr.: 39395990