In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226831855ISBN-10:022683185XUPC:9780226831855Book Category:History, MedicalBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+, United States, PsychiatryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.7915Product ID:SCBC28YW9M
In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life
A look at the history of psychiatry's foundational impact on the lives of queer and gender-variant people. In the mid-twentieth century, American psychiatrists proclaimed homosexuality a mental disorder, one that was treatable and amenable to cure. Drawing on a collection of previously unexamined case files from St. Elizabeths Hospital, In the Shadow of Diagnosis explores the encounter between...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226831855ISBN-10:022683185XUPC:9780226831855Book Category:History, MedicalBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+, United States, PsychiatryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.7915Product ID:SCBC28YW9M
Regina Kunzel is the Larned Professor of History and Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Kunzel is the author of Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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