TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meagher,Robert Emmet
AU  - Hauerwas, Stanley,
AU  - Shay, Jonathan,
TI  - Killing from the inside out: moral injury and just war 
SN  - 9781625646927 (paperback)
AV  - U22RC550 .M43 2014
U1  - 172.42 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Eugene, OR.
PB  - Cascade Books
KW  - War
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - War neuroses
KW  - Veterans
KW  - Mental health
KW  - United States
KW  - Post-traumatic stress disorder
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Just war doctrine
KW  - Armed Conflicts
KW  - ethics
KW  - psychology
KW  - Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-158) and index; Introduction: moral injury then and now -- Ancient Greece: warriors and lovers -- Killing: moral agency and pollution -- Imperial Rome: warriors and believers -- Christian Rome: warriors and saints -- Medieval Christianity: warriors and monks -- Early modern Europe: warriors and lawyers -- Conclusion: beyond just war
N2  - Armies know all about killing. It is what they do, and ours does it more effectively than most. We are painfully coming to realize, however, that we are also especially good at killing our own ''from the inside out, '' silently, invisibly. In every major war since Korea, more of our veterans have taken their lives than have lost them in combat. The latest research, rooted in veteran testimony, reveals that the most severe and intractable PTSD -- fraught with shame, despair, and suicide -- stems from ''moral injury.'' But how can there be rampant moral injury in what our military, our government, our churches, and most everyone else call just wars? At the root of our incomprehension lies just war theory -- developed, expanded, and updated across the centuries to accommodate the evolution of warfare, its weaponry, its scale, and its victims. Any serious critique of war, as well any true attempt to understand the profound, invisible wounds it inflicts, will be undermined from the outset by the unthinking and all-but-universal acceptance of just war doctrine. Killing from the Inside Out radically questions that theory, examines its legacy, and challenges us to look beyond it, beyond just war.--
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