Book Description
Lynda Van Devanter tells of joining the Army as a nurse in 1969 and working for a year in Vietnam, and of the effects of the experience on her life.
Author : Lynda Van Devanter
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Lynda Van Devanter tells of joining the Army as a nurse in 1969 and working for a year in Vietnam, and of the effects of the experience on her life.
Author : Lynda Van Devanter
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Nurses
ISBN :
A searing first person account of the Vietnam War, as seen through the eyes of an Army nurse.
Author : Spencer Tucker
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 25,33 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN :
Author : Lynda Van Devanter
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Nurses
ISBN :
A searing first person account of the Vietnam War, as seen through the eyes of an Army nurse.
Author : Pamela Moss
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,83 MB
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1782383476
As seen in military documents, medical journals, novels, films, television shows, and memoirs, soldiers’ invisible wounds are not innate cracks in individual psyches that break under the stress of war. Instead, the generation of weary warriors is caught up in wider social and political networks and institutions—families, activist groups, government bureaucracies, welfare state programs—mediated through a military hierarchy, psychiatry rooted in mind-body sciences, and various cultural constructs of masculinity. This book offers a history of military psychiatry from the American Civil War to the latest Afghanistan conflict. The authors trace the effects of power and knowledge in relation to the emotional and psychological trauma that shapes soldiers’ bodies, minds, and souls, developing an extensive account of the emergence, diagnosis, and treatment of soldiers’ invisible wounds.
Author : Lawrence A. Tritle
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415171601
This is a brilliant and moving discussion of the nature of violence in the ancient and modern world and how the traumas experienced affected the survivors.
Author : Christopher Morgan
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 22,21 MB
Release : 1983
Category :
ISBN : 9780446321532
Author : Eli Meyerhoff
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 1452960224
A bold call to deromanticize education and reframe universities as terrains of struggle between alternative modes of studying and world-making Higher education is at an impasse. Black Lives Matter and #MeToo show that racism and sexism remain pervasive on campus, while student and faculty movements fight to reverse increased tuition, student debt, corporatization, and adjunctification. Commentators typically frame these issues as crises for an otherwise optimal mode of intellectual and professional development. In Beyond Education, Eli Meyerhoff instead sees this impasse as inherent to universities, as sites of intersecting political struggles over resources for studying. Meyerhoff argues that the predominant mode of study, education, is only one among many alternatives and that it must be deromanticized in order to recognize it as a colonial-capitalist institution. He traces how key elements of education—the vertical trajectory of individualized development, its role in preparing people to participate in governance through a pedagogical mode of accounting, and dichotomous figures of educational waste (the “dropout”) and value (the “graduate”)—emerged from histories of struggles in opposition to alternative modes of study bound up with different modes of world-making. Through interviews with participants in contemporary university struggles and embedded research with an anarchist free university, Beyond Education paves new avenues for achieving the aims of an “alter-university” movement to put novel modes of study into practice. Taking inspiration from Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and Indigenous resurgence projects, it charts a new course for movements within, against, and beyond the university as we know it.
Author : John A. Wood
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,51 MB
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0821445626
In the decades since the Vietnam War, veteran memoirs have influenced Americans’ understanding of the conflict. Yet few historians or literary scholars have scrutinized how the genre has shaped the nation’s collective memory of the war and its aftermath. Instead, veterans’ accounts are mined for colorful quotes and then dropped from public discourse; are accepted as factual sources with little attention to how memory, no matter how authentic, can diverge from events; or are not contextualized in terms of the race, gender, or class of the narrators. Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War is a landmark study of the cultural heritage of the war in Vietnam as presented through the experience of its American participants. Crossing disciplinary borders in ways rarely attempted by historians, John A. Wood unearths truths embedded in the memoirists’ treatments of combat, the Vietnamese people, race relations in the United States military, male-female relationships in the war zone, and veterans’ postwar troubles. He also examines the publishing industry’s influence on collective memory, discussing, for example, the tendency of publishers and reviewers to privilege memoirs critical of the war. Veteran Narratives is a significant and original addition to the literature on Vietnam veterans and the conflict as a whole.
Author : Donald H. Whitfield
Publisher :
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 42,14 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Military art and science in literature
ISBN : 9781939014535
Standing Down: From Warrior to Civilian was created forTalking Service, the Great Books Foundation's initiative to develop reading and discussion programs for veterans, as well as their families, friends, service providers, and caregivers. Standing Down includes forty-four selections, from Homer's Iliad to personal accounts of members of the service who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essays, and memoirs that speak to past experiences, concerns, and aspirations of those who have served in the military and made the often-difficult transition back into civilian life.