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Asylum Ways of Seeing : Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture /
Asylum Ways of Seeing is a cultural and intellectual history of people with mental illnesses in the twentieth-century United States. While acknowledging the fraught, and often violent, histories of American psychiatric hospitals, Heather Murray also suggests that it is in these hospitals that patien...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- 1. What Can't Be Cured Must Be Endured
- 2. Biological Psychiatry and the "Happy Drone"
- 3. Communities, Selfhood, and "Lonely Crowds"
- 4. From Possessive to Expressive Individualism
- 5. Liberating "Those Whose Ways Are Different"
- Epilogue. Withdrawing from the Fray at the End of the Century
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments