Chance and Design. Reminiscences of Science in Peace and War

نویسنده

  • William C. Summers
چکیده

Advisory Group, led by Dr. Terence Keane at the Behavioral Sciences Division of the VA National Center for PTSD. The book is well written and clearly organized. Each chapter provides sufficient introduction and explanatory materials for the reader to comprehend the key points within it. The format allows those outside the field of PTSD to understand this critical study. The volume also attempts to reach out to Vietnam veterans. It includes an informative self-help chapter, by Dr. David Grady, that speaks to the good intentions of the NVVRS investigators and their appreciation that this text would be read by veterans with PTSD and their families. For others, however, the self-help chapter seems oddly out of place, rather abruptly juxtaposed with the epidemiologic study. The book achieves its goal of presenting a single study; sufficient background material is referenced to achieve this task. Readers hoping to utilize the volume as an introduction to the entire field of psychological trauma may be disappointed by the limited scope of the 110 references cited. The NVVRS is a highly important study, making Trauma and the Vietnam War Generation a book of great significance for the field of PTSD. If it is not already, the book will be required reading for anyone in the field of PTSD. The significance of the NVVRS has already been recognized by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, who awarded the NVVRS investigators the first Robert Laufer Memorial Award for its outstanding scientific contribution to the field of PTSD. I highly recommend this volume to anyone interested in the long-term psychological cost of the Vietnam war.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

دوره 65  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1992