On the Heels of Ignorance - Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing

On the Heels of Ignorance begins with American psychiatry's formal beginnings in the 1840s and moves through two centuries of constant struggle simply to define and redefine mental illness, to say nothing of the best way to treat it.

Summary

On the Heels of Ignorance begins with American psychiatry’s formal beginnings in the 1840s and moves through two centuries of constant struggle simply to define and redefine mental illness, to say nothing of the best way to treat it.

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• Authors: Owen Whooley, Whooley Owen
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9780226616247
• ISBN: 978-0-226-61624-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, Psychiatry, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought