Jerry Lembcke

Gebundenes Buch

Ptsd

Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America

Beschreibung

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.

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