| Edition |
First edition |
| Phys Descr |
x, 291 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes bibliographic references and index |
| Contents |
The baptismal font -- It's wrong, but you have no choice -- Regardless of the cost -- The rules: made to be broken -- A friend was liquefied -- Just war -- Trotting heart, shell shock, moral injury -- Grief is a combat injury -- It's really about killing -- Vulnerable -- Betrayed -- War crime -- Atheists in the foxholes -- Home -- The touchy-feely tough guys -- Listen |
| Summary |
Most Americans are now familiar with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and its prevalence among troops. In this groundbreaking new book, David Wood examines the far more pervasive yet less understood experience of those we send to war: moral injury, the violation of our fundamental values of right and wrong that so often occurs in the impossible moral dilemmas of modern conflict. It is a call to listen intently to our newest generation of veterans, and to ponder the inevitable human costs of putting American "boots on the ground" as new wars approach, -- adapted from book jacket |
| Subject |
War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
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Veterans -- Mental health -- United States
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Military ethics -- United States
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War -- Psychological aspects
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Veteran reintegration
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| OCLC # |
936532891 |
| ISBN # |
0316264156 |
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9780316264150 |
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