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Nadia Abu El-Haj, "Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America" (Verso, 2022)

New Books in the History of Science

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Post Vietnam Syndrome

Many soldiers participated in anti war activism and so did many of the psychologists doing research on trauma. The diagnosis in response to it were tied to broader systems and activities and was deeply political. This history is also really important to understanding a kind of structure of conversation today about Vietnam, you say.

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