The protest psychosis : how schizophrenia became a Black disease / Jonathan M. Metzl.

  • Metzl, Jonathan, 1964-
Date:
[2009], ©2009
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Description

The Protest Psychosis provides a cautionary tale of how anxieties about race continue to impact doctor-patient interactions, even during our current, seemingly post-race era of genetics, pharmacokinetics, and brain scans.

Publication/Creation

Boston : Beacon Press, [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

xxi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    PVA.6.AA9
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780807085929
  • 0807085928