Exposure to Death, Disasters, and Bodies

This is the fourth of a series of six volumes addressing the various psychological and behavioral factors of performance and medical care delivery in a chemical and biological warfare (CBW) environment. This volume addresses the unique stress of exposure to death and disaster both for individuals an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ursano, Robert J.
Other Authors: UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIV OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES BETHESDA MD
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1988
Subjects:
Stress Physiology
Chemical
Biological and Radiological Warfare
*DISASTERS
*DEATH
*PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE
RECOVERY
PEACETIME
STRESS(PSYCHOLOGY)
TEAMS(PERSONNEL)
IDENTIFICATION
AIR FORCE TRAINING
PLANNING
BIOLOGICAL WARFARE
CHEMICAL WARFARE
AIR FORCE FACILITIES
LOSSES
BEHAVIOR
EXPOSURE(PHYSIOLOGY)
MEDICAL SERVICES
DESERTS
PREVENTION
Dover
Newfoundland
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA203163
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA203163
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Summary:This is the fourth of a series of six volumes addressing the various psychological and behavioral factors of performance and medical care delivery in a chemical and biological warfare (CBW) environment. This volume addresses the unique stress of exposure to death and disaster both for individuals and for a community. In December 1985, the U.S. Army suffered its largest peacetime loss when a chartered plane carrying 248 soldiers crashed in Gander, Newfoundland. This tragedy resulted in 248 soldiers killed, all of whom were from one Army Post, Fort Campbell, Kentucky. This was one-third of a force which had been deployed to the Sinai Desert in a multi-national peacekeeping effort. The impact of this disaster upon the soldiers, unit and community at Fort Campbell, and the impact to the body recovery and body identification process at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, are the focus of this volume. Such research is conducted to obtain answers which will assist in establishing programs that will be in place and available when disaster, tragedy, or CBW strike. As shown here, a research team was able to enter a community that had suffered a mass disaster and gather information which provides important directions for the development of prevention programs and training plans in the case of CBW which will involve the entire community in unexpected and unfamiliar events.

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