Abstract

Ever since human beings first went to war, the people who fight in those wars have sustained not only physical wounds but also psychological wounds, which may spare the body but scar the mind. And for almost as long as human beings have been waging war, societies have struggled with two fundamental questions about these psychological wounds. First, how do we identify and define these unseen wounds, wounds that lead to the type of consequences that defy simple physiologic explanation? Second, given that some people clearly return from war with psychological issues that impair their ability to function, how do we justly compensate those who experience these psychological wounds (an issue that becomes particularly salient as the number of people affected increases)?

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