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Author Halliwell, Martin, author

Title Voices of mental health : medicine, politics, and American culture, 1970-2000 / Martin Halliwell
Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
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Contents Health debates at the bicentennial -- Wounds and memories of war -- Addiction and the war on drugs -- Dementia and the language of aging -- Developmental disabilities beyond the empty fortress -- Body image, anorexia, and the mass media -- Disorders of mood and identity -- Mental health at the millennium -- Conclusion : new voices, new communities
Summary Halliwell examines the cultural history of modern American medicine and psychiatry focusing on the late twentieth century. He pays particular attention to the politics of the post-Watergate, bicentennial-era American nation and brings into conversation a diverse cast of writers, filmmakers, physicians, policy-makers, social critics, and public figures
Analysis PTSD
bipolar
case study
depression
diagnosis
medical
mental disease
mental health
patient care
patient
psychiatric
psychiatry
psychology
schizophrenia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes This title is designated as a historical resource after 2022
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Subject Mental illness -- History
Mental illness -- Treatment.
Mental health policy.
Mental health policy -- History
Motion pictures.
Cinematography.
Mental Disorders -- history
Health Policy -- history
History, 20th Century
Mental Disorders -- therapy
Mental Health Services -- economics
Motion Pictures
Psychiatry in Literature
cinematography.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
PSYCHOLOGY -- History.
Motion pictures
Cinematography
Mental health policy
Mental illness
Mental illness -- Treatment
SUBJECT United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813576794
0813576792
9780813576800
0813576806