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IJE Advance Access originally published online on August 30, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(5):1367-1368; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl181
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2006; all rights reserved.

Book Review

Shell Shock to PTSD: Military Psychiatry from 1900 to the Gulf War, Maudsley Monographs 47. Edgar Jones and Simon Wessely, Hove: Psychology Press, £24.95, ISBN 1-84169-580-7

DAVID WAINWRIGHT

E-mail: d.wainwright@kent.ac.uk

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This book is about the inter-weaving of two distinct narratives. The first is characterized by notions of courage, valour, bravery, heroism, and cowardice, and the second by stressors, nerves, emotional damage, and mental illness. Nowhere do these possibly irreconcilable narratives come into conflict more acutely than in modern warfare, posing a fundamental dilemma for the military establishment of how to create an organizational culture, which promotes heroism and self-sacrifice but can still respond with compassion and effective care to those whose minds are damaged by the hidden injuries of war. Contemporary culture is deeply suspicious of the military milieu, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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