Psychosocial Stress and Ischaemic Heart Disease: An Evaluation in the Light of the Diseases' Attribution to War Service

This review of the psychosocial aetiology of ischaemic heart disease is prompted by a recent decision of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to accept that the ischaemic heart disease of a non combatant World War II veteran could be attributed to his war service. In the light of existing clinical and research evidence the Tribunal appears to have erred in its judgement. The precedent this particular decision establishes may prove extremely costly.

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Psychosocial Stress and Ischaemic Heart Disease: A Response to Tennant

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.3109/00048678209161267 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 265-278

Author(s):

Bruce Boman

Keyword(s):

Cardiovascular Disease ◽

Heart Disease ◽

World War Ii ◽

Ischaemic Heart Disease ◽

Psychosocial Stress ◽

Military Service ◽

And up she went – The moral vertical in Wings

Nordlit ◽

10.7557/13.4078 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Åsne Ø. Høgetveit

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Critical Discussion ◽

Interesting Case ◽

Soviet Society ◽

World War ◽

Memory Hierarchies ◽

Russian Culture ◽

Spatial Understanding ◽

Memory Culture ◽

World War Ii Veteran

This article is dedicated to the film Wings (1966) directed by the Soviet director Larisa Shepitko. With its story of a World War II veteran, Nadezhda Stepanovna Petrukhina, Wings makes for an interesting case when looking at women’s and veteran’s status in the Soviet society of the 1960’s, and morality and memory culture more generally speaking. But as Nadezhda Stepanovna is a former fighter pilot who continuously return to the sky in her daydreams, Wings is also an excellent case for a critical discussion of the meaning of the airspace. Aviation and the airspace hold certain connotations is Russian culture (not necessarily excluding other cultures) that open up for a different kind of reading of this film, in particular because of the intersections between gender, space and memory. Hierarchies are often presented trough a metaphor of verticality in Russian culture. By examining the different notions of verticality, both physical and metaphorical, in Wings, I not only argue that this film can be read in a new way, but also bring new perspectives on the established theory of women’s position in Russian culture as morally superior to men. This again can be linked back to the spatial understanding of Russia, as the term Motherland in Russia particularly strongly makes a connection between femininity, the mother, and space, the land.

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Posttraumatic stress disorder and the World War II veteran

Geriatric Nursing ◽

10.1016/s0197-4572(95)80006-9 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 16 (6) ◽

pp. 264-270 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Martha D. Buffum ◽

Nancy S. Wolfe

Keyword(s):

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽

World War Ii ◽

Posttraumatic Stress ◽

Stress Disorder ◽

World War ◽

The World ◽

World War Ii Veteran

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Surgeons Begin Trying to Treat Heart Disease

10.1093/med/9780199982356.003.0009 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

W. Bruce Fye

Keyword(s):

Heart Failure ◽

Congenital Heart Disease ◽

Heart Disease ◽

World War Ii ◽

Mitral Stenosis ◽

Congenital Heart ◽

Heart Surgery ◽

World War ◽

Mitral Valves ◽

Staff Members

The development of heart surgery lagged behind operations on other organs. In the 1920s surgeons in Boston and in Europe attempted to open mitral valves that had become obstructed as a complication of rheumatic fever. Most of their patients died, and the operation was abandoned until after World War II. Operations to treat children with specific types of congenital heart disease were developed between 1938 and 1944. But these procedures involved the blood vessels outside the heart rather than structures within it. After the war, surgeons in Boston, Philadelphia, and London showed that it was safe to operate on patients with severe mitral stenosis. Without surgery, these individuals would die of heart failure. Mid-century optimism about the potential of treating patients with heart disease was fueled by the discovery of so-called miracle drugs, such as penicillin and cortisone (for which two Mayo staff members shared the Nobel Prize in 1950).

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