TY - BOOK AU - Schaller,Barry R. AU - Brewster,Todd TI - Veterans on trial: the coming court battles over PTSD SN - 9781597978606 AV - RC550 .S35 2012 U1 - 305.90697305.90697 PY - 2012/// CY - Washignton, D.C. PB - Potomac Books Inc. KW - Post-traumatic stress disorder KW - United States KW - Disabled veterans KW - Legal status, laws, etc KW - Veterans KW - Mental health KW - War neuroses KW - Combat Disorders KW - Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic KW - legislation & jurisprudence KW - psychology KW - Warfare KW - État de stress post-traumatique KW - États-Unis KW - Anciens combattants KW - Santé mentale KW - Névroses de guerre KW - HISTORY KW - Military KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-254) and index; The battle that never ends -- Combat PTSD : a moving target -- Across the ages : PTSD from the Civil War to Korea -- The politics of PTSD : Vietnam -- The campaign for PTSD -- Vietnam veterans in the dock -- Breeding ground for PTSD : Iraq and Afghanistan -- The war at home : veterans in criminal court -- Women's war : the faces of PTSD -- Running the gauntlet : MST and sexual violence against women warriors -- Trials of homecoming -- Finding solutions : courts, psychiatry, and the politics of PTSD -- Epilogue : the future of PTSD N2 - Experts anticipate that more than 350,000 veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will return to civilian life with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Barry R. Schaller, a judge and a bioethicist, chronicles the events leading to what he predicts will be the most challenging PTSD epidemic in U.S. military history. Although combat veterans have experienced similar disorders in previous wars, Schaller explains why these two contemporaneous wars in particular are a breeding ground for the condition UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=463173 ER -