Indirect action : schizophrenia, epilepsy, AIDS, and the course of health activism /

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"The experience of illness (both mental and physical) figures prominently in the critical thought and activism of the 1960s and 1970s, though it is largely overshadowed by practices of sexuality. Lisa Diedrich explores how and why illness was indeed so significant to the social, political, and...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Diedrich, Lisa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld
Public health > History.
Social medicine.
Social justice.
Public Health > history
Social Justice
Santé publique > Histoire.
Justice sociale.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disease & Health Issues.
MEDICAL > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Public health
Social justice
Social medicine
Patient
Politische Bewegung
Public Health
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Illness-Thought-Activism; 1. Doing Queer Love, circa 1985; Snapshot 1: Gregg Bordowitz's The Order of Image Production (2003) and "Queer Structures of Feeling" (1993); 2. Que(e)rying the Clinic, circa 1970; Snapshot 2: Félix Guattari's "David Wojnarowicz" (1989); 3. Enacting Clinical Experience, circa 1963; Snapshot 3: Samuel R. Delany's Happening (1959); 4. Thinking Ecologically, circa 1962 and 1971; Snapshot 4: Frantz Fanon's "Colonial War and Mental Disorders" (1961) and Isaac Julien's "Fanon" (1996); 5. Drawing Epilepsy.
  • Snapshot 5: Disability Law Center's Investigation of Bridgewater State Hospital (2014) and Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies (1967)6. Witnessing Schizophrenia; Afterimage: ACT UP's "Drugs into Bodies," the Near Present; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.

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