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Mental health in the war on terror : culture, science, and statecraft /
This study finds that mental-health and biomedical professionals have created new forms of knowledge and practice in their desire to understand and fight terrorism, and in the process, psychiatrists and psychologists have either worked uncritically to protect state interests or labored to protect un...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This study finds that mental-health and biomedical professionals have created new forms of knowledge and practice in their desire to understand and fight terrorism, and in the process, psychiatrists and psychologists have either worked uncritically to protect state interests or labored to protect undesirable populations from state control. Professional interpretation, like all interpretations, is subject to cultural forces. Drawing on cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology, the author analyzes the influence of the war on terror in the transformation of definitions for normal and abnormal behavior. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231538442 0231538448 0231166648 9780231166645 |