Shook over Hell Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil War

Name: Shook over Hell Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil War
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ISBN: 9780674806528

ISBN-10: 0674806522

ISBN-13: 9780674806528

Edition: 1997

Authors: Eric T. Dean, Eric T. Dean

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Vietnam still haunts the American conscience, with an estimated 1.5 million veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Dean argues that the experience of the Vietnam veterans was paralleled by those of Civil War veterans.

Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Eric T. Dean, Jr., is an attorney who has recently been awarded a doctorate in history from Yale University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: "Terbacker Out" "Unwelcome Heroes": The Agony of Vietnam


"Every Man Has His Breaking Point": War and Psychiatry


"Dangled over Hell": The Trauma of the Civil War


"A Gizzard Full of Sand": Reactions to Violence


"For God's Sake Please Help Me": Post-Traumatic Stress


"Dying of Nostalgia": Official Diagnoses


"This Must End Sometime": The Fate of the Civil War Veteran


"Tramping by Night and Day": Indiana Veterans


"I Am Glad I Served My Country": Vietnam Reconsidered Conclusion: "A Spectacle Grand and Awful to Contemplate"



The Indiana Sample



Casualty Statistics: The Company Sample and Regimental Data



Nineteenth-Century Indiana Insane Asylums and Involuntary Commitment Procedures



Confederate Veterans


Notes


Index