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UNINA9910162690603321 |
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Autore |
Glasser Ronald |
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Titolo |
Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds [[electronic resource] ] : A Medical Odyssey from Vietnam to Afghanistan |
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History Publishing Company, LLC, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-16251-2 |
9786613162519 |
1-933909-48-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Medicine, Military -- United States -- History |
Military medicine -- History -- United States |
United States. Army Medical Dept. History |
History, 20th Century |
Occupational Groups |
History, 21st Century |
Disease |
Medicine |
Stress Disorders, Traumatic |
Anxiety Disorders |
Health Occupations |
History, Modern 1601- |
Persons |
History |
Named Groups |
Disciplines and Occupations |
Mental Disorders |
Humanities |
Psychiatry and Psychology |
Afghan Campaign 2001- |
Military Personnel |
Combat Disorders |
Vietnam Conflict |
Wounds and Injuries |
Military Medicine |
Military & Naval Science |
Law, Politics & Government |
Military Administration |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Forty Years of War""; ""The Late Great 1968 / Welcome to the Army""; ""Zama / The Wounded""; ""The Medics / Then and Now""; ""America�s Wars / An Autopsy Report""; ""Med-evacs and Gunships / A Short and Deadly Technical History""; ""The Changing Face of Military Medicine""; ""Teleconferencing / More Than Six Degrees of Separation""; ""All the Toms / Iraq 2004""; ""Shell Shock / The Shattering of Minds""; ""The Wars Within""; ""Multiple Deployments / Brains at Risk""; ""The Bleeding Wars""; ""IEDs / Blasts that Kill and Maim"" |
""Traumatic Brain Injuries / PTSD / The Invisible Wounds""""All the Jakes / Adrift in Afghanistan / 2010""; ""That Deadly Sense of Privilege""; ""All the Carries and Priscillas""; ""Bullets of Grief / A Prescription for Prevention""; ""“Is My Junk All Together?�""; ""Chronicles / Reduxing Vietnam""; ""Epilogue""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Glossary""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""References and Recommended Reading""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Told in the narrative, and from personal experience, author traces changing nature of warfare from jungles of Vietnam to streets and mountains of Iraq and Afghanistan and the physical and psychological damage of wounds to troops in U.S. Army and Marine Corps. And what it has come to realize. The efficiency of evacuation units has led to quick treatment of IED-caused wounds resulting in life-saving amputation,most since American Civil War. Amputation on women soldiers and their difficulty using prosthetics designed for male soldiers is examined and, large scale concussive cerebral damage, a new |
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