Mad by the Millions
Synopsis
The World Health Organization's post-World War II work on the epidemiology and classification of mental disorders and its vision of a "world psyche."In 1946, the World Health Organization undertook a project in social psychiatry that aimed to discover the epidemiology and classification of mental disorders. In Mad by the Millions, Harry Y-Jui Wu examines the WHO's ambitious project, arguing that it was shaped by the postwar faith in technology and expertise and the universalizing vision of a "world psyche." Wu shows that the WHO's idealized scientific internationalism laid the foundations of today's highly highly metricalized global mental health system.
- Copyright:
- 2021 MIT Press
Book Details
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- ISBN-13:
- 9780262362344
- Publisher:
- MIT Press
- Date of Addition:
- 2021-04-13T08:52:29Z
- Language:
- English
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- This is a copyrighted book.