Disabled Veterans in History (Corporealities: Discourses Of by David A. Gerber

By David A. Gerber

Disabled Veterans in History explores the long-neglected heritage of these who've sustained lasting accidents or persistent health problems whereas serving in uniform. The members to this quantity disguise a powerful variety of nations in Europe and North the United States in addition to a large sweep of chronology from the traditional global to the current. This revised and enlarged variation, to be had for the 1st time in paperback, has been up-to-date to mirror the recent realities of battle accidents within the twenty first century, together with PTSD. The e-book comprises an afterword via famous Veterans management psychiatrist and MacArthur Award winner Jonathan Shay, a brand new preface, and an further essay at the altering nature of the yank conflict hero.

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