Voices of Mental Health : Medicine, Politics, and American Culture, 1970-2000 /

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This dynamic and richly layered account of mental health in the late twentieth century interweaves three important stories: the rising political prominence of mental health in the United States since 1970; the shifting medical diagnostics of mental health at a time when health activists, advocacy gr...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Halliwell, Martin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Temas:
History, 20th Century.
Medical policy > History.
Mental Disorders > History.
Mental Disorders > therapy.
Mental health services > economics.
Motion Pictures as Topic.
Psychiatry in literature.
MEDICAL / General.
PTSD.
bipolar.
case study.
depression.
diagnosis.
medical.
mental disease.
mental health.
patient care.
patient.
psychiatric.
psychiatry.
psychology.
schizophrenia.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part One. The Health Legacy of the 1970s
  • 1. Health Debates at the Bicentennial
  • 2. Wounds and Memories of War
  • 3. Addiction and the War on Drugs
  • 4. Dementia and the Language of Aging
  • Part Two. Health Voices of the 1980s and 1990s
  • 5. Developmental Disabilities beyond the Empty Fortress
  • 6. Body Image, Anorexia, and the Mass Media
  • 7. Disorders of Mood and Identity
  • 8. Mental Health at the Millennium
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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