A Strange Perspective: Naval Psychiatry in the Vietnam War Around 1968, Part II

To address this gap, Strange and Capt. Dudley E. Brown MC USN (Head, Neuropsychiatry branch, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington, DC) coauthored a study involving 100 Marine and Navy patients at the Naval Hospital to ascertain if returnees who had been in combat in Vietnam were likely to be m...

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Published in:Military medicine 2017-11, Vol.182 (11), p.1742-1743
Main Authors: Connor, J T H, Rhode, Michael G
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antibiotics
Archives & records
Armed forces
Hospitals
Humans
Medicine
Military medicine
Military Psychiatry - methods
Military Psychiatry - standards
Naval Medicine - methods
Naval Medicine - standards
Pharmaceutical industry
Physicians - psychology
Psychiatry
Studies
United States
Vietnam Conflict
Vietnam War
World War II
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Summary:To address this gap, Strange and Capt. Dudley E. Brown MC USN (Head, Neuropsychiatry branch, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington, DC) coauthored a study involving 100 Marine and Navy patients at the Naval Hospital to ascertain if returnees who had been in combat in Vietnam were likely to be more violent than servicemen who were noncombatants. Hostilities in Vietnam were still in their early stages, despite innumerable fire fights and dangerous missions; the years from 1968 on would see the intensity, scope, and human destructiveness of the war increase. [...]although conscription was enacted, the more stringent requirements of the Navy and Marine Corps, which also was highly dependent on volunteers, likely resulted in service personnel who had a more developed esprit de corps and commitment to military service as a "career." [...]as this was touted as the first war during which the pharmaceutical agent phenothiazine (Thorazine/chlorpromazine) was available and used and which the pharmaceutical company manufacturing it made much of, how widespread was the prescribing of such antipsychotics? [...]a common theme in the history of medicine is the link between clinical innovations in wartime and their later beneficial transfer to civilian medicine: included are plastic and orthopedic surgical techniques; antibiotics; blood banking and transfusions; trauma care; and emergency first responders' technology and protocols.
ISSN:0026-4075
1930-613X
DOI:10.7205/MILMED-D-17-00383