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'Most veterans were either alcoholics or workaholics and I fitted into the latter category' —Chris Cannin (6RAR, 1967; 7RAR, 1967-68). 'When I look back and I see what I used to do … there were a lot of things wrong that I would never ever admit to at the time … I thought I was fine, but I wasn't' — Alan Thornton (17 CONSTRUCTION SQUADRON, 1968–69). The medical and psychological legacies of the Vietnam War are major and continuing issues for veterans, their families, and the community, yet the facts about the impact of Agent Orange, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other long-term health aspects are little understood.
The Long Shadow sets the record straight about the health of Vietnam veterans and reveals a more detailed and complex picture. Profiling the stories of the veterans themselves, this comprehensive and authoritative book is a pioneering work of history on the aftermath of war. It takes a broad approach to the medical legacies, exploring the post-war experiences of Vietnam veterans, the evolution and development of the repatriation system in the post-Vietnam decades and the evolving medical understanding of veterans' health issues.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- 1 The Medical Legacies of War
- 2 ‘We Will Look After Your Welfare’: The Legacy of the First World War
- 3 Repatriation Policy and Practice, 1939–62
- 4 ‘It Was All an Adventure’: Australian Forces in Vietnam
- 5 Fighting the War in Vietnam
- 6 Medical Issues of the Vietnam War
- 7 Return from Vietnam
- 8 The Decade of Silence
- 9 The Beginnings of the Agent Orange Controversy
- 10 Australian Veterans and Agent Orange
- 11 Australian Forces and Chemical Exposure in Vietnam
- 12 The Senate Inquiry and the First Epidemiological Studies
- 13 The Evatt Royal Commission
- 14 Post-Vietnam Syndrome and PTSD: The Mental Health of Vietnam Veterans in the 1980s
- 15 The Health of Veterans and Their Families in the 1980s
- 16 Fight it Case by Case
- 17 Science v Politics: The Turning Point in the Agent Orange Debate, 1988–2000
- 18 F.B. Smith’s Official History
- 19 Hitting the Wall: Veterans and Their Families, 1988–2000
- 20 Asking the Veterans: The Self-reported Study of the 1990s
- 21 The Mental Health of Vietnam Veterans in the 1990s
- 22 The Physical Health of Vietnam Veterans, 1988–2000
- 23 ‘Everyone Has Their Way of Coping’: Australia’s Vietnam Veterans since 2000
- 24 The Physical Health of Vietnam Veterans since 2000
- 25 Agent Orange and Dioxin: Exposure and Health Effects
- 26 The Mental Health of Vietnam Veterans and Their Families since 2000
- 27 War without Purpose, War without End
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index