The Vietnam War as China’s Watershed

Neurology in the Vietnam War.

Between December 1965 and December 1971, the United States maintained armed forces in Vietnam never less than 180,000 men and women in support of the war. At one time, this commitment exceeded half a million soldiers, sailors, and airmen from both the United States and its allies. Such forces required an extensive medical presence, including 19 neurologists. All but two of the neurologists had ...

The Vietnam War as a Vietnamese War: Agency and Society in the Study of the Second Indochina War

Once upon a time, during the 1970s and 1980s, the Vietnam War (1959–1975) was studied mainly as an episode in American history. Anglophone authors in the United States and elsewhere wrote extensively about the war during its closing stages and during the first years of the postwar era. This early scholarship on the war included a great deal of pathbreaking research that shed new light on import...

Trauma and the Vietnam War Generation

presentations, treatment, prognosis, and non-clinical aspects such as medico-legal, ethical, and counseling aspects of the disease. Occasionally, the British perspective makes it slightly less relevant to the U.S., and, sometimes, molecular terms are not explained (e.g., gag, pol, sor, and the like), which would force readers who have not been trained recently to do some background research. Of...

Women at war: The crucible of Vietnam

Relatively little has been written about the military women who served in Vietnam, and there is virtually no literature on deployed civilian women (non-military). We examined the experiences of 1285 American women, military and civilian, who served in Vietnam during the war and responded to a mail survey conducted approximately 25 years later in which they were asked to report and reflect upon ...

WAR AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION: THE IMPACT OF THE VIETNAM CONFLICT AND GULF WAR IN AMERICA by