商品簡介
PTSD: Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America is a historical and cultural study of war-trauma diagnoses dating from Shell Shock in WWI, through its reformulation as PTSD in the post-Vietnam War years, and then to its enhancement with Traumatic Brain injury in the twenty-first century. In the context of American defeats in war, PTSD has morphed from a socially-constructed diagnostic category into a political and cultural trope with implications for American masculinity and national identity.
作者簡介
Jerry Lembcke is associate professor of sociology at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts. He has authored six books including The Splitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam, and most recently, Hanoi Jane: War, Sex and Fantasies of Betrayal. His opinion pieces have appeared in the Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and the National Catholic Reporter.
