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Foundation for Integrating Employee Health Activities for Active Duty Personnel in the Department of Defense
RAND Corporation 2009; US$ 9.95The authors describe current Department of Defense safety and occupational health programs and health information systems, as well as employee health programs outside of DoD to provide a foundation for considering a more integrated Department of Defense employee health program. more...
FOB Doc
D & M Publishers 2010; US$ 18.95Military doctors serving in Afghanistan usually spend their entire tour in the relatively safe confines of the main base. FOB Doc is the story of one Canadian doctor who spent nearly his entire tour in combat. Captain Ray Wiss was stationed at Forward Operating Bases ? FOBs ? in Khandahar province, the birthplace of the Taliban and the most intense... more...
On Radji Beach
Pan Macmillan Australia 2010; US$ 24.67On 12 February 1942, Singapore was just days away from its fall to the Japanese. As the city burned, hundreds of desperate people scrambled to the docks to flee. Amongst them were 65 Australian Army nurses, who boarded a coastal freighter, the Vyner Brooke. But theirs was a doomed voyage. Japanese bombers attacked and sank the vessel off Sumatra.... more...
War Wounds
Exisle Publishing 2011; US$ 9.99The history of warfare and the history of medicine are closely intertwined. The major wars of the last hundred years - from the First World War to more recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan - have driven advances in treatments for wounds and pain management, the use of antibacterial agents and more effective prevention and control of disease and... more...
Beating Combat Stress
Wiley 2011; US$ 49.95Beating Combat Stress is a one-stop handbook of field-tested techniques and strategies to help service personnel, veterans and professionals to deal with the psychological effects of combat. Features 101 field-tested techniques and strategies for managing combat-related stress Designed to be accessible and useful both to serving personnel and veterans,... more...
When the War Never Ends
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2011; US$ 14.99Service members returning from deployment are often suffering from PTSD. Its symptoms include distressing flashbacks, memories and nightmares, aggression, memory problems, physical symptoms, loss of positive emotions, and withdrawal from society. When the War Never Ends tells the stories of those who have lived it themselves - affected veterans... more...
Healing Stress in Military Families
Wiley 2012; US$ 58.00Eight practical steps to help military families through the unique issues they face When service members return, it's up to their families to try to soften their re-entry into civilian life. Healing Stress in Military Families offers practical help for military families coping with the myriad repercussions of their loved ones' duties, from their... more...
Making Men Moral
NYU Press 1996; US$ 75.00On May 29, 1917, Mrs. E. M. Craise, citizen of Denver, Colorado, penned a letter to President Woodrow Wilson, which concluded, We have surrendered to your absolute control our hearts' dearest treasures--our sons. If their precious bodies that have cost us so dear should be torn to shreds by German shot and shells we will try to live on in the hope... more...
Understanding Combat Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 39.95This introduction to the invisible wound of war, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, explains the historical development of PTSD, its myriad symptoms and the most effective psychological and medical treatments. Combining the basic tenets of cognitive psychotherapy and his own military experience, the author explores such topics as PTSD's effects on families... more...
Handbook of Counseling Military Couples
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 59.95The military imposes unique and often severe challenges to couples, which clinicians ? particularly the growing numbers of civilian clinicians who see military couples ? often struggle to address. These problems are only compounded by misunderstandings and misconceptions about what it means to be part of a specific branch of the military and part... more...









