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The protest psychosis : how schizophrenia became a black disease / Jonathan M. Metzl.
Van Pelt Library RC451.5.N4 M48 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Metzl, Jonathan, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Mental health--Case studies.
- African Americans.
- Schizophrenia--Case studies.
- Schizophrenia.
- African Americans--Mental health.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Preface: the protest psychosis
- Homicidal
- Ionia
- She tells very little about her behavior yet shows a lot
- Loosening associations
- Like a family
- The other direction
- Categories
- Octavius Greene had no exit interview
- The persistence of memory
- Too close for comfort
- His actions are determined largely by his emotions
- Revisionist mystery
- A racialized disease
- A metaphor for race
- Turned loose
- Deinstitutionalization
- Raised in a slum ghetto
- Power, knowledge, and diagnostic revision
- Return of the repressed
- Rashamon
- Something else instead
- Locked away
- Diversity
- Inside
- Remnants
- Controllin' the planet
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780807085929
- 0807085928
- OCLC:
- 319496892
- Publisher Number:
- 99936113792
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