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Book The Politics of Readjustment

Download or read book The Politics of Readjustment written by Wilbur Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veterans of all wars face a demanding task in readjusting to civilian life. Vietnam veterans have borne an additional burden, having returned from a controversial war that ended in defeat for the United States and South Vietnam. To address this situation, leaders among the Vietnam veterans and their allies formed organizations of their own to articulate their problems and extract concessions from a reluctant Congress, Federal agencies, and courts.Scott, a former infantry platoon leader in Vietnam, describes the major social movements among his fellow veterans during the period of 196 to 1990 in a lively narrative, combining personal interviews with documentary and press records. Included in the book are the 'sociological stories' of protests against the war in Operations RAW and Dewey Canyon III: the successful effort to place post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Third Edition (DSM-III), of the American Psychiatric Association; the building of the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., despite fierce opposition; and the long-running controversy over the herbicide Agent Orange. In the last chapter the author details the sociological thinking that informs his stories, and develops the implications for understanding social movements in general and veterans' issues in particular.

Book Shook Over Hell

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric T. Dean
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780674806511
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book Shook Over Hell written by Eric T. Dean and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam still haunts the American conscience. Not only did nearly 58,000 Americans die there, but--by some estimates--1.5 million veterans returned with war-induced Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This psychological syndrome, responsible for anxiety, depression, and a wide array of social pathologies, has never before been placed in historical context. Eric Dean does just that as he relates the psychological problems of veterans of the Vietnam War to the mental and readjustment problems experienced by veterans of the Civil War. Employing a multidisciplinary approach that merges military, medical, and social history, Dean draws on individual case analyses and quantitative methods to trace the reactions of Civil War veterans to combat and death. He seeks to determine whether exuberant parades in the North and sectional adulation in the South helped to wash away memories of violence for the Civil War veteran. His extensive study reveals that Civil War veterans experienced severe persistent psychological problems such as depression, anxiety, and flashbacks with resulting behaviors such as suicide, alcoholism, and domestic violence. By comparing Civil War and Vietnam veterans, Dean demonstrates that Vietnam vets did not suffer exceptionally in the number and degree of their psychiatric illnesses. The politics and culture of the times, Dean argues, were responsible for the claims of singularity for the suffering Vietnam veterans as well as for the development of the modern concept of PTSD. This remarkable and moving book uncovers a hidden chapter of Civil War history and gives new meaning to the Vietnam War.

Book Legacies of Vietnam

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book Legacies of Vietnam written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Study of the Problems Facing Vietnam Era Veterans

Download or read book A Study of the Problems Facing Vietnam Era Veterans written by Louis Harris and Associates and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Trauma And The Vietnam War Generation

Download or read book Trauma And The Vietnam War Generation written by Richard A. Kulka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys psychiatric disorders among Vietnam veterans.

Book Readjustment Problems of Vietnam Era Veterans

Download or read book Readjustment Problems of Vietnam Era Veterans written by David Swords Kent and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book H R  1443 and Oversight of the VA s Readjustment Counseling Program for Vietnam era Veterans

Download or read book H R 1443 and Oversight of the VA s Readjustment Counseling Program for Vietnam era Veterans written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Hospitals and Health Care and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Study of the Problems Facing Vietnam Era Veterans on Their Readjustment to Civilian Life

Download or read book Study of the Problems Facing Vietnam Era Veterans on Their Readjustment to Civilian Life written by Louis Harris and Associates and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Legacies of Vietnam

Download or read book Legacies of Vietnam written by Arthur Egendorf and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vietnam Veterans

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  • Author : Joel Osler Brende
  • Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
  • Release : 1985-03-21
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Vietnam Veterans written by Joel Osler Brende and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1985-03-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interweaves the profoundly personal accounts of veterans with the history of that era to focus attention on the specific problems of readjustment that plague eight hundred thousand Vietnam veterans.

Book Vietnam Veterans  Readjustment  January 25  Chicago  Ill   January 26  Los Angeles  Calif

Download or read book Vietnam Veterans Readjustment January 25 Chicago Ill January 26 Los Angeles Calif written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Study of the Problems Facing Vietnam Era Veterans on Their Readjustment to Civilian Life  January 31  1972

Download or read book A Study of the Problems Facing Vietnam Era Veterans on Their Readjustment to Civilian Life January 31 1972 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vietnam Veterans  Readjustment

Download or read book Vietnam Veterans Readjustment written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Readjustment Counseling Programs for Vietnam Veterans

Download or read book Readjustment Counseling Programs for Vietnam Veterans written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Hospitals and Health Care and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Politics of Readjustment

Download or read book The Politics of Readjustment written by Wilbur J. Scott and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veterans of all wars face a demanding task in readjusting to civilian life. Vietnam veterans have borne an additional burden, having returned from a controversial war that ended in defeat for the United States and South Vietnam. To address this situation, leaders among the Vietnam veterans and their allies formed organizations of their own to articulate their problems and extract concessions from a reluctant Congress, Federal agencies, and courts. Scott, a former infantry platoon leader in Vietnam, describes the major social movements among his fellow veterans during the period of 196 to 1990 in a lively narrative, combining personal interviews with documentary and press records. Included in the book are the “sociological stories” of protests against the war in Operations RAW and Dewey Canyon III: the successful effort to place post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Third Edition (DSM-III), of the American Psychiatric Association; the building of the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., despite fierce opposition; and the long-running controversy over the herbicide Agent Orange. In the last chapter the author details the sociological thinking that informs his stories, and develops the implications for understanding social movements in general and veterans' issues in particular.