The Long Shadow
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The Long Shadow

Australia's Vietnam Veterans Since the War

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eBook - ePub

The Long Shadow

Australia's Vietnam Veterans Since the War

About this book

A defining account of Australia's Vietnam veterans and their post-war challenges.

The Long Shadow sets the record straight about the health of Vietnam veterans, revealing a detailed and complex picture of the medical and psychological legacies of the war. Profiling the stories of the veterans themselves, this comprehensive and authoritative history explores their post-war experiences, the repatriation system, and the evolving medical understanding of veterans' health issues.

Discover the truth about Agent Orange, PTSD, and the long-term health aspects little understood. This book is for scholars, historians, veterans, and anyone interested in the social, medical, and psychological impact of war. Learn about:

  • The post-war experiences of Vietnam veterans
  • The evolution of the repatriation system
  • The medical understanding of veterans' health issues

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Information

Publisher
NewSouth
Year
2020
Topic
History
eBook ISBN
9781742245034
Subtopic
Australian & Oceanian History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface and Acknowledgements
  7. 1 The Medical Legacies of War
  8. 2 ‘We Will Look After Your Welfare’: The Legacy of the First World War
  9. 3 Repatriation Policy and Practice, 1939–62
  10. 4 ‘It Was All an Adventure’: Australian Forces in Vietnam
  11. 5 Fighting the War in Vietnam
  12. 6 Medical Issues of the Vietnam War
  13. 7 Return from Vietnam
  14. 8 The Decade of Silence
  15. 9 The Beginnings of the Agent Orange Controversy
  16. 10 Australian Veterans and Agent Orange
  17. 11 Australian Forces and Chemical Exposure in Vietnam
  18. 12 The Senate Inquiry and the First Epidemiological Studies
  19. 13 The Evatt Royal Commission
  20. 14 Post-Vietnam Syndrome and PTSD: The Mental Health of Vietnam Veterans in the 1980s
  21. 15 The Health of Veterans and Their Families in the 1980s
  22. 16 Fight it Case by Case
  23. 17 Science v Politics: The Turning Point in the Agent Orange Debate, 1988–2000
  24. 18 F.B. Smith’s Official History
  25. 19 Hitting the Wall: Veterans and Their Families, 1988–2000
  26. 20 Asking the Veterans: The Self-reported Study of the 1990s
  27. 21 The Mental Health of Vietnam Veterans in the 1990s
  28. 22 The Physical Health of Vietnam Veterans, 1988–2000
  29. 23 ‘Everyone Has Their Way of Coping’: Australia’s Vietnam Veterans since 2000
  30. 24 The Physical Health of Vietnam Veterans since 2000
  31. 25 Agent Orange and Dioxin: Exposure and Health Effects
  32. 26 The Mental Health of Vietnam Veterans and Their Families since 2000
  33. 27 War without Purpose, War without End
  34. Bibliography
  35. Notes
  36. Index

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