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Volume 345:774 September 6, 2001 Number 10
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A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Twentieth Century

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By Ben Shephard. 487 pp., illustrated. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2001. $27.95. ISBN 0-674-00592-9.

I knew from the quality of the writing and scholarship in the initial chapters of this book that it would be a pleasure to read, but I also realized it would be a challenge to review the book because of its scope and detail and the controversy the author provokes. Shephard begins, "There is a compelling reason to take a much wider look at what has happened in the past: we are making a mess of this problem today and need to learn the lesson that, in treating the aftermath of war, good intentions are not enough." Shephard is a . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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