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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diedrich, Lisa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--History.

Public health.

History.

Social medicine.

Social justice.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

290 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]

Summary:

"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 institutional transformation beginning in the '60s through the emergence of AIDS in the United States. A rich intervention--both theoretical and methodological, political and therapeutic--Indirect Action illuminates the intersection of illness, thought, and politics. Not merely a revision of the history of this time period, Indirect Action expands the historiographical boundaries through which illness and health activism in the U.S. have been viewed. Diedrich explores the multiplicity illness-thought-politics through an array of subjects: queering the origin story of AIDS activism by recalling its feminist history; exploring health activism and the medical experience; analyzing psychiatry and self-help movements; thinking ecologically about counter-practices of generalism in science and medicine; and considering the experience and event of epilepsy and the witnessing of schizophrenia. Indirect Action places illness in the leading role in the production of thought during the emergence of AIDS, ultimately showing the critical interconnectedness of illness and political and critical thought"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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: Felix 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Diedrich, Lisa, author. Indirect action

ISBN:

9781517900007

151790000X

9781517900014

1517900018

OCLC:

951157720