"PTSD and Veterans: What Historians Need to Know," Guest lecture in HIST 104 World Wars section by Dr. Michael Doidge

Watch the recording below, or access it outside the Symposium site at https://bit.ly/41PHuNI Links to an external site. 

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Abstract: Dr. Doidge will speak to students in the World Wars section of the History KP about how historians of war have misunderstood PTSD and its impact on veterans, the military, and civilian society.  

Dr. Michael Doidge is a historian working for the federal government. He is an expert in the history of military medicine, with particular focuses on joint medical policy, force health readiness, epidemiology, mental health, traumatic brain injury, post traumatic stress disorder, and suicide. Dr. Doidge just published his second article on the history of suicide in the military. This article compares U.S. civilian and U.S. Army suicide rates from 1900 to the present.

For more information on the topic of military suicides please visit: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2757484 Links to an external site.

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Course: HIST 104 World Wars

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Faculty Sponsor: Professor Halliday Piel

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