Doctoral Dissertation Research: On Terror and Trauma: Governance, Law and Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome

虽然创伤后应激障碍范式的确立与诊断类别本身一样古老，但关于创伤后应激障碍是什么以及如何补偿受害者的争论至今仍未解决。现有的奖学金已经研究了社区组织的赔偿权利的越南退伍军人，强奸幸存者和高风险的工人影响了创伤后应激障碍作为诊断类别的认可。但是，创伤后应激障碍证据确实是通过相互交织的司法和科学程序产生的，这一点很少受到社会科学的关注。本研究探讨了2015年11月13日（11/13）法国恐怖袭击事件后，证实创伤并确定其经济补偿的证据的生产，流通和鉴定。这将允许重新评估创伤后应激障碍作为一种具有独特病因的精神疾病的特征的重要性，为美国不同形式的公共卫生政策制定和人道主义援助的宪法中的法律的起诉提供依据，欧洲和全球南部。这项研究的结果将针对学术界，政府和民间组织的受众，旨在改善紧急心理护理的管理和对大规模暴力受害者的赔偿。 为了实现这些目标，本研究探讨了两个经济体的证据生产技术的11/13相关的PTSD调查：（1）的法律的确定参数的PTSD补偿和（2）法医报告的PTSD诊断标准，在11/13幸存者和他们的病因的确定。数据收集从参与者的观察和半结构化的采访与国家保险公司的恐怖主义行为受害者的保证基金（FGTI），神经心理学家的国家卫生和医学研究所参与的生物医学研究创伤后应激障碍的11/13幸存者，和两个协会，代表11/13受害者的FGTI。通过调查法律和神经科学在治疗创伤后应激障碍索赔中的交叉点，该项目将深入了解证据证明，作证协议和生物技术在当代社会生活政治中的纠缠。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

While contestation of the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder paradigm is as old as the diagnostic category itself, the debate about what PTSD is and how to compensate victims remains unsolved to this day. Existing scholarship has examined how community organizing for compensation rights by Vietnam veterans, rape survivors, and high-risk workers has influenced the recognition of PTSD as a diagnostic category. But the intertwined juridical and scientific procedures through which PTSD evidence is indeed produced have received scant attention from the social sciences. The present research explores the production, circulation, and contestation of evidence substantiating trauma and determining its financial compensation following the November 13, 2015 (11/13) terrorist attacks in France. This will allow for a reassessment of the significance of PTSD's characterization as a mental illness with a unique etiology providing grounds for legal prosecution in the constitution of distinct forms of public health policy-making and humanitarian assistance in the U.S., Europe, and the Global South. Findings from this research will address audiences across academia, government and civil organizations that aim to improve the management of emergency psychological care and the indemnification of victims of mass violence. To achieve these goals, the research explores the technologies of evidence production in two economies of 11/13-related PTSD investigation: (1) the legal determination of the parameters for PTSD compensation and (2) the forensic reporting of PTSD diagnostic criteria in 11/13 survivors and the determination of their etiology. Data are collected from participant observation and semi-structured interviews with state insurers of the Guarantee Fund for Victims of Acts of Terrorism (FGTI), neuropsychologists of the National Institute of Health and Medical Research involved in biomedical research on PTSD in 11/13 survivors, and two associations that represent 11/13 victims to the FGTI. By investigating the intersection between law and neuroscience in their treatment of PTSD claims, the project will provide insight into the entanglement of practices of evidentiary proof, protocols for testifying, and biotechnologies in the politics of life of contemporary societies.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.