What's Wrong with the Poor? : Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty /

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In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. In this interdisciplinary history, a physician and historian examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout that decade, ending with Pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Raz, Mical (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social policy.
Poverty > Psychological aspects.
Poor > Government policy.
Poor.
Deprivation (Psychology)
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Privation (Psychologie)
Pauvrete > États-Unis > Aspect psychologique.
Pauvres > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
African Americans > history
Cultural Deprivation
History, 20th Century
Public Policy > history
Poverty > history
Poverty > psychology
Poverty > United States > Psychological aspects.
Poor > United States.
Poor > Government policy > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Politique sociale.
United States
United States > Social policy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A mother's touch? : from deprivation to day care
  • Cultural deprivation? : race, deprivation, and the nature-nurture debate
  • Targeting deprivation : early enrichment and community action
  • Deprivation and intellectual disability : from "mild mental retardation" to resegregation
  • Environmental psychology and the race riots.

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