The Living Legacy of WWI: The Politics & Medicine of Treating Post-Traumatic Stress 

via the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs web site

Note: Transcript of a podcast on April 19, 2018

REED BONADONNA: I'm Reed Bonadonna. I'm a senior fellow for the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and I'm talking from the Carnegie Council building, here on Lexington and 64th in Manhattan. I'm the lead administrator for the Living Legacy of the First World War project that the Council is taking on today, and I'm going to be talking this morning with one of the nine Fellows who were selected to pursue research topics concerning the experience of the First World War.

Detail from John Singer Sargent's Gassed (1919). CREDIT: Google Cultural Institute/Imperial War Museum London Today's interview is with Tanisha Fazal. She is a professor at the University of Minnesota. I'll mention that in addition to the work that she is doing now for the World War I project she is the author of the recent book published by Cornell University Press, Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict.

Her project title for the World War I project is "The Politics and Medicine of Treating Post-traumatic Stress (PTS) Since World War I."

I would like to give Tanisha a chance to flesh out that introduction a little bit and say where she is calling from and anything else she would like to say by way of self-introduction.

TANISHA FAZAL: First, it is good to be with you. I am really excited about the opportunity to work with this project on the Living Legacy of the First World War. I am sitting here in my office at the University of Minnesota. It is a very foggy day, but I have nonetheless a very nice view of the Mississippi River, which has thawed out a little bit since the recent deep freeze.

REED BONADONNA: Yes, we're having a cold one here in New York, too. Not cold by Minnesota standards.

TANISHA FAZAL: Yes. Well, we are recent transplants to Minnesota, so we are adjusting.

REED BONADONNA: Right. Got it.

Why don't we start with an expected lowball question: How did you get started on this project concerning post-traumatic stress and the First World War?

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