Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
x, 291 pages ; 25 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references (pages [277]-282) 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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HISTORY / Military / Iraq War (2003-2011). |
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PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy. |
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PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). |
Added Title |
Moral injury of our longest wars |
ISBN |
9780316264150 |
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0316264156 |
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