Author: United States. Veterans Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disabled veterans
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Annual Report for Fiscal Year Ending June 30 ...
Author: United States. Veterans Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disabled veterans
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disabled veterans
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
A Nation of Veterans
Author: Olivier Burtin
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512823155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A Nation of Veterans examines how the United States created the world’s most generous system of veterans’ benefits. Though we often see former service members as an especially deserving group, the book shows that veterans had to wage a fierce political battle to obtain and then defend their advantages against criticism from liberals and conservatives alike. They succeeded in securing their privileged status in public policy only by rallying behind powerful interest groups, including the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Disabled American Veterans, and the American Legion. In the process, veterans formed one of the most powerful movements of the early and mid-twentieth century, though one that we still know comparatively little about. In examining how the veterans’ movement inscribed martial citizenship onto American law, politics, and culture, A Nation of Veterans offers a new history of the U.S. welfare state that highlights its longstanding connection with warfare. It shows how a predominantly white and male group such as military veterans was at the center of social policy debates in the interwar and postwar period and how women and veterans of color were often discriminated against or denied access to their benefits. It moves beyond the traditional focus on the 1944 G.I. Bill to examine other important benefits like pensions, civil service preference, and hospitals. The book also examines multiple generations of veterans, by shedding light on how former service members from both world wars as well as Korea and the Cold War interacted with each other. This more complete picture of veterans’ politics helps us understand the deep roots of the military welfare state in the United States today.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512823155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A Nation of Veterans examines how the United States created the world’s most generous system of veterans’ benefits. Though we often see former service members as an especially deserving group, the book shows that veterans had to wage a fierce political battle to obtain and then defend their advantages against criticism from liberals and conservatives alike. They succeeded in securing their privileged status in public policy only by rallying behind powerful interest groups, including the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Disabled American Veterans, and the American Legion. In the process, veterans formed one of the most powerful movements of the early and mid-twentieth century, though one that we still know comparatively little about. In examining how the veterans’ movement inscribed martial citizenship onto American law, politics, and culture, A Nation of Veterans offers a new history of the U.S. welfare state that highlights its longstanding connection with warfare. It shows how a predominantly white and male group such as military veterans was at the center of social policy debates in the interwar and postwar period and how women and veterans of color were often discriminated against or denied access to their benefits. It moves beyond the traditional focus on the 1944 G.I. Bill to examine other important benefits like pensions, civil service preference, and hospitals. The book also examines multiple generations of veterans, by shedding light on how former service members from both world wars as well as Korea and the Cold War interacted with each other. This more complete picture of veterans’ politics helps us understand the deep roots of the military welfare state in the United States today.
Annual Report - Administrator of Veteran Affairs
Author: United States. Veterans Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Veterans
Languages : en
Pages : 1680
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Veterans
Languages : en
Pages : 1680
Book Description
Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages : 1458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages : 1458
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: United States. Veterans Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disabled veterans
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disabled veterans
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
VA Medical Program in Relation to Medical Schools
Author: Benjamin J. Lewis
Publisher:
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Category : Medical colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Annual Report of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30 ... (Departmental Ed.)
Author: United States. Veterans Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disabled veterans
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disabled veterans
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Psychiatric Casualties
Author: Mark Russell
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231547455
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The psychological toll of war is vast, and the social costs of war’s psychiatric casualties extend even further. Yet military mental health care suffers from extensive waiting lists, organizational scandals, spikes in veteran suicide, narcotic overprescription, shortages of mental health professionals, and inadequate treatment. The prevalence of conditions such as post–traumatic stress disorder is often underestimated, and there remains entrenched stigma and fear of being diagnosed. Even more alarming is how the military dismisses or conceals the significance and extent of the mental health crisis. The trauma experts Mark C. Russell and Charles Figley offer an impassioned and meticulous critique of the systemic failures in military mental health care in the United States. They examine the persistent disconnect between war culture, which valorizes an appearance of strength and seeks to purge weakness, and the science and treatment of trauma. Instead of reckoning with the mental health crisis, the military has neglected the needs of service members. It has discharged, prosecuted, and incarcerated a large number of people struggling with the psychological realities of war, and it has inflicted humiliation, ridicule, and shame on many more. Through a far-reaching historical account, Russell and Figley detail how the military has perpetuated a self-inflicted crisis. The book concludes with actionable prescriptions for change and a comprehensive approach to significantly improving military mental health.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231547455
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The psychological toll of war is vast, and the social costs of war’s psychiatric casualties extend even further. Yet military mental health care suffers from extensive waiting lists, organizational scandals, spikes in veteran suicide, narcotic overprescription, shortages of mental health professionals, and inadequate treatment. The prevalence of conditions such as post–traumatic stress disorder is often underestimated, and there remains entrenched stigma and fear of being diagnosed. Even more alarming is how the military dismisses or conceals the significance and extent of the mental health crisis. The trauma experts Mark C. Russell and Charles Figley offer an impassioned and meticulous critique of the systemic failures in military mental health care in the United States. They examine the persistent disconnect between war culture, which valorizes an appearance of strength and seeks to purge weakness, and the science and treatment of trauma. Instead of reckoning with the mental health crisis, the military has neglected the needs of service members. It has discharged, prosecuted, and incarcerated a large number of people struggling with the psychological realities of war, and it has inflicted humiliation, ridicule, and shame on many more. Through a far-reaching historical account, Russell and Figley detail how the military has perpetuated a self-inflicted crisis. The book concludes with actionable prescriptions for change and a comprehensive approach to significantly improving military mental health.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1478
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1478
Book Description
Annual Report of the General Accounting Office
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description