57 Aftermath and Remembrance - Veterans Issues. (Recommended Reading List on the Viet Nam War)
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This article is from the Vietnam FAQ, by Brian Ross, John R. Tegtmeier, Edwin E. Moise, Frank Vaughan, John Tegtmeier with numerous contributions by others.
57 Aftermath and Remembrance - Veterans Issues. (Recommended Reading List on the Viet Nam War)
Kanter, Leona. The Social Construction of Vietnam Veteran's
Identity. Ph.D. diss., University of Pittsburgh, 1988.
Available through UMI Dissertation Information
Service.
MacPherson, Myra. Long Time Passing : Vietnam and the
Haunted Generation. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984; Achor Books, 1993.
Puller, Lewis B. Jr. Fortunate Son : The Autobiography of
Lewis B. Puller, Jr. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991; Bantam, 1993.
*CORE* Award winning autobiography of a Marine
Lieutenant who was the son of the legendary general "Chesty" Puller.
Puller lost both legs to a booby trap explosive shorty after
starting his tour in Vietnam. Much of the book deals with the challenges
Puller faced in adjusting to both his injuries and the social
environment in the US concerning the war.
Rohde, Richard R. Identity, Self, and Disorder Among
Vietnam Veterans : PTSD and the Emergence of an Electronic Community. Ph.
D. diss., University of Hawaii, 1995.
Available through UMI Dissertation Information
Service. This is a very interesting study of both the academic discourse
involving the social science critique of the bio-medical model of
PTSD, and of veterans reaction to it - namely the formation of
community. Rohde examines, in particular, the interplay of veterans on
an internet mailing list, including their own views on such issues
as forgiveness and the interactions of veterans with Dr. Jonathan Shay
who presents the bio-medical model in "Achilles in Vietnam".
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 (above) for a critque
of parts of this model.
Wilcox, Fred A. Waiting for an Army to Die : The Tragedy of
Agent Orange. New York: Vintage, 1983; reprint, Seven Locks Press,
1989.
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