ABSTRACT
In their conclusion, McClymond and Cohen discuss the groundbreaking conceptual work of clinicians and scientists in the field of moral injury. They note the limits of scientific inquiry. Its tools do not tell us all we need to know about the meaning and significance of moral injury. McClymond and Cohen cast the humanities as particularly geared toward critically interpreting and understanding moral injury. In their various guises, the authors argue, the humanities help us understand the experiences of persons with moral injury and the implications such trauma has for the choices we face and the communities we inhabit. Working together with clinicians, humanists can help laypersons and experts to understand how the risk, experience, and aftermath of moral injury matters.
