GLH10302-Annotated Bibliography

George Lewis Hughes

English 103: Accelerated Composition – At a Glance (Alfano 135)

Daniel Richards

October 6, 2008

Composing an Annotated Bibliography: Visual Rhetoric Thesis Two: Shellshock as a Bridge Between Nihilism and Society

I. Primary Source:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=shellshocked%20soldiers&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

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II. Secondary Sources:

1. Book #1 – Bourne, Peter G. The Psychology and Physiology of Stress: With Reference to Special Studies of the Viet Nam War. New York: Academic Press, Inc., 1969.

· This volume that is intensely academic toward the clinical trend of the fields of both psychology and psychiatry is – despite its miring in the technicalities of neurosis theory – an invaluable source which predominately relies upon the credibility of historical precedence to lend credence to the diagnoses of the commonalities in posttraumatic stress disorder suffered throughout all the modern wars to date, primarily as a link between their stark experiential differences with respect to each separate case, as seen expressly from the eyes of the common soldier himself. The book is steeping in its comprehensive attachment to citations and examples from already published documents surmising the subject at hand, thereby making it even more reliable as a principal secondary source (as if it never was even at the start). As such, I plan to make use of no other secondary source more in-depth than this very, authoritative work.

2. Book #2 – Copp, Terry, and McAndrew, Bill. Battle Exhaustion: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Canadian Army, 1939-1945. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1990.

· This penultimate secondary source will further reinforce my thesis vis-à-vis more historically grounded, more specialized, content for reference. I will specifically delve into this material when denoting for my argumentative backdrop the various cases of investigation from legitimately certified professionals of the psychiatric field as critically explored ever since the evolution of modern warfare as we know it today. The book’s legitimacy mainly hinges on its declarative status as an intensively specialized and researched – rather than a broadly and, in effect, shallowly researched – source.

3. Scholarly Article #1 – Brown, Paul, and Graafland, Mariëtte, and van der Hart, Onno. Psychiatric History: Trauma-induced Dissociative Amnesia in World War I Combat Soldiers. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 1999; 33: 37-46 <http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/120139366/ PDFSTART>.

· This secondary source of lesser citable rank – but nonetheless a thoroughly valid and reliable source, as evidenced by its interminable bibliography boasting extremely precedential sources – will most likely follow third in the procession of legitimate sources utilized thereof. I plan to reserve its content to more anecdotal purposes, according to where its credible genuineness and value most apparently resides. With this detail cleared, the journal article overtly surfaces the heart of its dissertation, which is based on the gravity of the poignancy of historical precedence, as consigned to the specialty of amnesia studies in linking to the

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properties of the mentally induced trauma therein encountered with such magnitude and regularity throughout the timeframe of the First World War.

4. Scholarly Article #2 – Dobson, Matthew, and Marshall, Richard P., et al. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Comorbidity in Australian Vietnam Veterans: Risk Factors, Chronicity and Combat. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 1998; 32: 32-42 <http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/120142027/ PDFSTART>.

· This article, because it belongs to the same journal as the source hereby listed prior to this source, will not only maintain a citable rank similar to that of its chronological successor, but also challenge – and, therein, inherently check – the consistency and thereby the reliability of the overarching journal of the same identity in kind, despite the notion that such a precaution is does not even pose a necessary standing, on the separate precept that both are backed – as already, previously noted for the first case – by compendia of superb sources of their own. The clinical exploration of archival cases herein centers about the evaluation of the various risk factors that define their various respective performance tasks required of the Australian soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War during their time, specifically with respect to the fluctuating levels of liability for one to fall victim to the symptoms of neurosis and other trauma related diagnoses of the mental and emotional arena, particularly as a question of the endangerment to the paradigm of the coalition of the “self” identity as a united side as part of the military engagements implied. The study and estimation of the reasonable extent to which posttraumatic stress disorder as a detriment and side effect of the convenience to combatant conflicts (which notably feed off the staple of physically human vessels) should implicitly be overlooked – therein suggesting its incumbent degrees of tolerability and thereby negligibility – should add excellent support to my thesis, concerning the unique angle of approach it presents in correspondence to the thesis statement hereby being validated.

5. Website – McLeroy, Carrie. Army Releases Fifth Mental Health Study. 07 Mar 2008 <http://www.army.mil/-news/2008/03/07/7821-army-releases-fifth-mental-health-study/http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=shellshocked+soldiers&btnG= Search+Images&gbv=2>.

· This extrapolated source as definitively a website should be referenced and cited sparingly, out of respect for its correspondingly sparing reliability as a fully fledged secondary source of the liberally citable distinction. Because its origins are unclear, its quotations inclusively inserted into my prospective thesis – if any – should be attentively evoked in a suggestive light, rather than in a light of rhetorical foundation for my implied argument. Nevertheless, however, the article as explicitly a military document should pose an interesting contrast to the more suggestively pacifistic interpretations of the same topic from the more academic echelon of the study.