The Walking Wounded: Festering and Ricocheting Trauma After Gun Violence - Softcover

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"Gun violence is a plague on this country. Last year more than 48,000 Americans died of gunshot wounds, a shame on this nation. Sociologist Jooyoung Lee focuses in this book on people who have been shot, but who have survived to tell the tale-in fact, about eighty percent of shooting victims survive their injuries. But what kind of life follows? With rich, empathetic detail, Lee shares from the lives of gunshot victims in Philadelphia-mostly men, mostly Black-after they have been released from clinical care. The long-term health impacts of gun violence are substantial. Trying to perform routine tasks with a wounded body reminds gunshot victims that they are no longer who they used to be. Acute injuries from shootings often fester into new health problems. And of course, the aftereffects are not just physical: Lee shows how trauma ricochets through a victim's social world as family members and friends are affected by a loved one's injuries and trauma. Lee closes by urging a sensible and sensitive rehabilitative system that would provide the walking wounded with ways of becoming independent again"--

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