Aftermath and Remembrance -
Veterans Issues. (Page 2)
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| Scott, Wilbur J. The Politics of Readjustment : Vietnam Veterans Since the War. New York: Aldine deGruyter, 1993. | |
| Shay, Jonathan. Achilles in Vietnam : Combat Trauma and the
Undoing of Character. New York: Atheneum 1994; Touchstone,
1995. The author is a psychiatrist for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Boston where he has had extensive dealings with veterans suffering from PTSD. The book tries to illuminate the causes and universality of this illness with passages from the classical Greek epic The Iliad and the witness of Vietnam veterans. An interesting exploration of the bio-medical model. Readers should note the Shay sometimes generalizes from the population of severe chronic PTSD suffers to the wider Vietnam combat veteran population, a weakness in the book. See also Richard Rohde for a critique of parts of this model. |
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| Wilcox, Fred A. Waiting for an Army to Die : The Tragedy of Agent Orange. New York: Vintage, 1983; reprint, Seven Locks Press, 1989. |
