Sentence examples for injuries of war from inspiring English sources
In earlier eras, various labels attached to the psychological injuries of war: soldier's heart, shell shock, Vietnam disorder.
Now, in one of the largest studies of its kind, a team of researchers based out of New York University's medical school have begun a five-year study to find biological signals, known as biomarkers, that could provide reliable, objective evidence of those so-called invisible injuries of war.
These are the moral and spiritual injuries of war.
The pain from these injuries of war only escalate as the combat deescalates.
Some bore physical injuries of war, while others sustained the invisible wounds of PTSD.
Others claim that the psychological, emotional and moral injuries of war deserve the same recognition as physical injuries.
To the Editor: Re "PTSD and the Purple Heart" (editorial, Jan . 12: Post-traumatic stress disorder is one of the signature wounds of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, yet our government remains painfully slow to recognize PTSD as an injury of war.
Rita Nederman East Williston, N.Y., Oct. 23, 2010 To the Editor: In 2009 V.A. clinical psychologists published the first in-depth description of a rarely addressed hidden trauma of war called "moral injury".
"As the war has gone on and we realize that T.B.I. is one of the significant injuries of the war, we have put more initiatives in place to screen, diagnose and treat T.B.I.," said Col. Elspeth C. Ritchie, the psychiatry consultant to the Army surgeon general.
For example, analysis of wound tissue of war injuries produced in Gaza in 2009 revealed traces of elements which have been argued by the authors to be associated with carcinogenicity and fetotoxicity, including As, Cd, Sn, Pb, Hg, U, Cr, Ni, Co and V [ 13].
