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Creating mental illness / Allan V. Horwitz.
LIBRA RC437.5 .H674 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Horwitz, Allan V.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychiatry--Philosophy.
- Psychiatry.
- Psychiatry--History--20th century.
- Deviant behavior--Labeling theory.
- Deviant behavior.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- PrefaceIntroduction--The Proliferation of Mental Illnesses1. A Concept of Mental Disorder2. The Expansion of Mental Disorder in Dynamic Psychiatry3. The Emergence of Diagnostic Psychiatry4. The Extension of Mental Illnesses into the Community5. The Structuring of Mental Disorders6. The Biological Foundations of Diagnostic Psychiatry7. Social Causes of Distress8. Diagnostic Psychiatry and TherapyConclusionMental Illnesses as Social ConstructionsNotesReferencesIndex
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-[282]) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226353818
- OCLC:
- 46937499
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