Shook over hell post traumatic stress vietnam and the civil war dean jr eric t isbn 9780674806528 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Post traumatic stress vietnam and the civil war 1997 historians of civil war veterans have wres tled with the question of how to evaluate the con flicts psychological effects on the men who fought and survived presented with tantalizing evidence in personal correspondence family reminis cences and legal and medical records scholars are separated from their subjects by . War trauma shook over hell post traumatic stress vietnam and the civil war author affiliations harriet smeyermd contributing editorjonathan deldredgemls phd journal review editorroberthoganmd adviser for new media. shook over hell is genuinely revisionist on two fronts it changes our understanding of psychiatric casualties in both the vietnam war and the civil war and it does so not by sleight of hand redefining terms while leaving the substance unchanged but by solid research sound analysis and lucidwriting. The politics and culture of the times dean argues were responsible for the claims of singularity for the suffering vietnam veterans as well as for the development of the modern concept of ptsd this remarkable and moving book uncovers a hidden chapter of civil war history and gives new meaning to the vietnam war