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Whooley Owen Whooley

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Psychiatry has always aimed to peer deep into the human mind, daring to cast light on its darkest corners and untangle its thorni...

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Psychiatry has always aimed to peer deep into the human mind, daring to cast light on its darkest corners and untangle its thorniest knots, often invoking the latest medical science in doing so. But, as Owen Whooley's sweeping new book tells us, the history of American psychiatry is really a record of ignorance. On the Heels of Ignorance begins with psychiatry's formal inception in the 1840s and moves through two centuries of constant struggle simply to define and redefine mental illness, to say nothing of the best way to treat it. Whooley's book is no antipsychiatric screed, however; instead, he reveals a field that has muddled through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving. On the Heels of Ignorance draws from intellectual history and the sociology of professions to portray an ongoing human effort to make sense of complex mental phenomena using an imperfect set of tools, with sometimes tragic results.

Informations sur le produit

Titre:

On the Heels of Ignorance

Sous-titre :

Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing

Auteur:

Whooley Owen Whooley

EAN:

9780226616414

Format:

eBook (pdf)

Producteur:

University of Chicago Press

Genre:

Autre sciences humaines, art, musique

Parution:

23.04.2019

Protection contre la copie numérique:

Adobe DRM

Taille de fichier:

1.35 MB

Nombre de pages:

304

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