scholarly journals The World Trade Center attack: mental health needs and treatment implications

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel B. Herman ◽  
Ezra S. Susser
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Trade Center Attack ◽  
Loss Of Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
The City

On 11 September 2001, the United States suffered the worst terrorist attacks in its history. In New York City, approximately 3000 persons were killed at the World Trade Center, while many thousands fled for their lives. Millions of other city residents observed the burning towers and breathed the acrid smoke that blanketed the city. Compounding the massive physical destruction and loss of life, the psychological impact of these terrifying events on the populace was profound – there were significant increases in mental distress and symptoms of disorder.

Terorisme: Perspektif Barat dan Islam

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-38
Author(s):  
Mohd. Hefzan ◽  
Fitria Fitria
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
The United States ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Western World ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center

The issue of terrorism has tapped the border of human civilization. The West has a viewon terrorism following their own perceptions. Now the Western world is afraid of theirown shadows after the entry into force of the events of September 11, 2001 which haveembodied the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York. This black event has reallyshocked the Western world which so far they are proud that the United States is thegreat power of the world, has now been attacked so extreme. The problem that arisesnow in the Islamic world is that the West has misinterpreted what is said to be jihad.The enemy of Islam has labeled terrorism as a jihad in Islam, this is how the West triesto put Islam as a ferocious religion. The term jihad is what terrorism says for the West.In Islamic teachings jihad cases are something that is highly demanded and has nodirect connection with terrorism activities.

September 11 as Heist

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 835-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAMILTON CARROLL
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Representational Space ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
Genre Conventions ◽  
The City

This article examines two films, James Marsh's Man on Wire and Spike Lee's Inside Man in relation to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It looks at both films as examples of the heist genre and explores the ways in which genre conventions enable the production of meaning about the terrorist attacks. The conventions of the heist film, it argues, help make sense of September 11 by producing a different set of relations to time and space that draw on the uncanny, rather than the traumatic, nature of the events. Narrating stories of transgression, both films place the horrors of September 11 in another context. Through the genre conventions of the heist, each film offers a view of New York in which the events of September 11 and the destruction of the World Trade Center stand as the center. Not yet complete in one, already destroyed in the other, the Twin Towers haunt these films. As Man on Wire and Inside Man each attempt to make sense of the world in which the city of New York is marked most powerfully by a profound absence, it is in their uses of the heist genre that they find a representational space in which to mourn the World Trade Center and the victims of the attacks.

scholarly journals Mortality among Fire Department of the City of New York Rescue and Recovery Workers Exposed to the World Trade Center Disaster, 2001–2017

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (17) ◽  
pp. 6266
Author(s):  
Hilary L. Colbeth ◽  
Rachel Zeig-Owens ◽  
Charles B. Hall ◽  
Mayris P. Webber ◽  
Theresa M. Schwartz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Linear Trend ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Fire Department ◽  
Smoking History ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
The City

The World Trade Center (WTC) attacks on 9/11/2001 have consistently been associated with elevated rates of physical and mental health morbidities, while evidence about mortality has been limited. We examined mortality between 9/12/2001 and 12/31/2017 among 15,431 WTC-exposed Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) firefighters and emergency medical service providers (EMS), specifically assessing associations between intensity of WTC-exposure and mortality risk. Standardized mortality ratios (SMR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) compared FDNY cohort mortality with the US general population using life table analysis. Deaths were identified via linkage to the National Death Index. Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to identify associations between intensity of WTC-exposure and mortality, accounting for age, sex, race/ethnicity, smoking history, and other relevant confounders. We identified 546 deaths and a lower than expected all-cause mortality rate (SMR = 0.22; 95% CI, 0.20–0.24). No cause-specific SMRs were meaningfully elevated. Mortality hazard ratios showed no association or linear trend with level of WTC-exposure. Our results provide evidence of the healthy worker effect, despite exposure to the World Trade Center. More follow-up time may be needed to assess the full impact of WTC-exposure on mortality in this occupational population.

Listening to the City

2014 ◽  
pp. 176-199
Author(s):  
Jon Linden
Keyword(s):  
United States Of America ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
The United States ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City ◽  
Center Site

On September 11, 2001, the United States of America incurred one of the most devastating acts of terrorism in its 200+ year existence. For approximately a week, the entire country was in shock. For those who lived in and around Manhattan or were otherwise there that week, the experience was unprecedented. During that week, people in Manhattan experienced a city that was numb with awe. As the cleanup of the World Trade Center site in downtown Manhattan in the financial section went forward, the planning had already begun with respect to rebuilding the site and its immediate environs. This chapter is the explanation and elucidation of not just the resulting reconstruction but also the innovative process by which a diverse group of stakeholders and the government designed the rebuilding. This chapter describes a sociological experiment. The questions asked during this experiment are very specific: 1) Can a small percentage of interested parties truly represent the opinions of the majority of between 30 million and 300 million people? and 2) Can a group of people without huge access to capital or significant political power truly influence the end results of such a tremendously large project with worldwide interest?

Teledemocratic Innovations that Public Officials Ignore-At Our Great Peril

2011 ◽  
pp. 51-66
Author(s):  
Ted Becker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
Political Apathy

In this chapter, the author tackles the major problems plaguing representative democracies around the world. Importantly, these problems originate from the alienation of citizens. The problems manifest themselves, for example, in the dramatic decrease of voting turnouts particularly in the United States. There is a disconnect between the citizenry and political power in the field of public administration. Becker maintains that despite much talk about the needs to develop citizen-centered public administration, little practical change can be seen in this respect and by and large, the attempts to make governmental services more accessible by ICT have not lessened citizen’s feelings of estrangement and apathy. Having diagnosed the ills of representative democracy and public administration, Becker discusses new methods to bridge the gap between government and citizens and to fight political apathy. One of the methods of empowering citizens is scientific deliberative polling which has been experimented with successfully since the 1970s. The author also reviews the experiences of electronic town meetings, for example, AmericaSpeaks which was organized in New York in July 2002 to discuss how to rebuild the World Trade Center.

scholarly journals Frequency of implantable cardioverter fibrillator discharges in New York following the world trade center attack

2003 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 86-87
Author(s):  
Aysha Arshad ◽  
Marcin Kowalski ◽  
Atul Kukar ◽  
Valentin Suma ◽  
Margot E. Vloka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
World Trade Center Attack ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center
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