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PTSD: Society and Culture

The Society and Culture section of Posttraumatic stress disorder would benefit from contributions from this task force. The section currently has a little information about the United Kingdom, but nothing for the United States or other countries.

I will add information as I have time. The impact of the PTSD diagnosis on society and culture has been significant, and our culture(s) have also influenced how we conceptualize trauma and posttraumatic stress.

According to WP:MEDMOS (Wikipedia Manual of Style for Medicine-related articles), the Society and Culture section "...might include stigma, economics, religious aspects, awareness, legal issues, notable cases."

Some potential topics include:

• PTSD as a criminal defense (sometimes for insanity defenses but more often for mitigation)
• Veterans courts
• 'Everyone has PTSD' (fad diagnosis, criterion creep)
• PTSD in cinema and television
• PTSD myths (e.g., all Vietnam war veterans are crazy and might 'go postal' at any moment)
• Stigma of a PTSD diagnosis in the military (e.g., "you won't get promoted if you have PTSD") and civilian life (e.g., "employers think I'm crazy because I served in Iraq")
• Significant increase in number of veterans receiving VA disability compensation for PTSD - Is it due to laws and regulations catching up with reality, or are a large number of veterans without PTSD nonetheless receiving service-connected disability benefits for PTSD due to political factors?
• Emphasis on combat-related PTSD versus PTSD due to childhood abuse (often stigmatized as borderline personality disorder), domestic violence (stigmatized as a sign of pre-existing psych problems of the victim/survivor), motor vehicle accidents, etc.
• Posttraumatic growth

Thank you for your consideration. - Mark D Worthen PsyD 16:10, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Overlap with WP:Hospitals

My concern relates to the articles for various medical colleges. I was wondering if {{WikiProject Medicine | class= | importance= |society=yes |society-imp=Mid}} should be placed on talk pages of medical colleges as in Talk:Al-Ameen Medical College. Since WP:Hospitals has been placed on the articles and so rather than introducing WP:MED separately would it not be a better idea to introduce a parameter like {{WikiProject Hospitals | class= | importance= |education=yes |education-imp=Mid}} or {{WikiProject Hospitals | class= | importance= |med.ed=yes |med.ed-imp=Mid}} within the scope of WP:Hospitals? I am trying to mark the overlap of scope of the two wikiprojects here.

I was going through List of medical colleges in India and was quite shocked to see the pathetic condition that the majority of the articles are in. Indeed we need to figure out some way to tag them. Diptanshu^Talk 02:45, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

A further issue to consider is that the articles tagged with WP:MED appear on the offline version of the medical wikipedia app and that the articles marked with WP:Hospitals do not. Since the tagging is not standard, some medical colleges appear on the list while others do not. Requesting the defining of a standard policy to be defined. Diptanshu^Talk 03:04, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

I would be supportive of tagging them all with WPHOSPITAL and detagging them from WPMED. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:32, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Hospitals § Scope lists "medical training establishments" as outside that project's scope. They recommend WP:MED and WikiProject Universities. —Shelley V. Adams ‹blame
credit› 18:51, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

And Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Society and medicine task force § Scope says "Articles that are included in this scope include those about: ... Education: including medical schools and universities." —Shelley V. Adams ‹blame
credit› 18:56, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

!scope

What's not in the scope of this task force?— Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 15:05, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

HAES NPOV dispute:

• Talk:Health_at_Every_Size#HAES_article_lacks_Neutral_Point_of_View

Would like some people with knowledge of medicine to chime in on this. Harizotoh9 (talk) 02:32, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

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