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What have we done : the moral injury of our longest wars / David Wood.

By: Copyright date: ©2016Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016Edition: First editionDescription: x, 291 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780316264150
  • 0316264156
Other title:
  • Moral injury of our longest wars
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RC550 .W664 2016
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.
List(s) this item appears in: Mental Health
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks RC550 .W664 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001495265

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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