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Psychologoical and Psychosocial Consequences of Combat and Deployment with Special Emphasis on the Gulf War (Gulf War Illnesses Series)

Psychologoical and Psychosocial Consequences of Combat and Deployment with Special Emphasis on the Gulf War (Gulf War Illnesses Series)
By David Marlowe

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This book argues that, to be most helpful to veterans, we must deal with this issue of complexity and not simply focus on a hypothecated or hoped for singular cause of Gulf War illness. Research in neuroscience has demonstrated that the boundary betwee

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #1284390 in Books
  • Published on: 2001-04-25
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 212 pages

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Veterans of the Persian Gulf War report a variety of physical and psychological symptoms, some of which remain unexplained.In an effort to determine the ex-tent to which these symptoms may be related to Gulf War service and to develop policies tobetter deal with health risks in future deployments, the Secretary of Defense designated a special assistant to oversee allDepartment of Defense (DoD) efforts related to the illnesses of Gulf War veterans. The Office of the Special Assistant for GulfWar Illnesses (OSAGWI) is charged to do everything possible to understand and explain the illnesses, to inform veterans andthe public of its progress and findings, and recommend changes in DoD policies and procedures to minimize such problems inthe future.Stress was identified as one area of concern related to illnesses among Gulf War veterans. Dr. David Marlowe, who is anexpert in the area of stress related disorders, briefed leaders in DoD and other agencies at RAND on the subject. RAND wasthen asked to work with Dr. Marlowe to prepare a monograph that summarized those views. This monograph presents theviews of Dr. Marlowe based on many years of research, including investigations made in the Gulf. The views put forth here arehis and are not meant to represent either a complete review of the history of stress or a review of the literature on stress as itrelates to the Gulf War. (For a review of the scientific literature as it pertains to stress in the Gulf War, See Marshall, Davis, andSherbourne, 1999.)This document should interest anyone involved in the study of Gulf War illnesses, and, more broadly, those who served and thegeneral public. It was sponsored by the Office of the Special Assistant and was carried out jointly by RAND Health1s Centerfor Military Health Policy Research and the Forces and Resources Policy Center of RAND1s National Defense ResearchInstitute. The latter is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense,the Joint Staff, the unified commands, and the defense agencies.