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Voices of Mental Health
Medicine, Politics, and American Culture, 1970-2000
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English
Published/Copyright:
2017
About this book
This dynamic and richly layered account of mental health in the late twentieth century interweaves three important stories: the rising political prominence of mental health in the United States since 1970; the shifting medical diagnostics of mental health at a time when health activists, advocacy groups, and public figures were all speaking out about the needs and rights of patients; and the concept of voice in literature, film, memoir, journalism, and medical case study that connects the health experiences of individuals to shared stories.
Together, these three dimensions bring into conversation a diverse cast of late-century writers, filmmakers, actors, physicians, politicians, policy-makers, and social critics. In doing so, Martin Halliwell’s Voices of Mental Health breaks new ground in deepening our understanding of the place, politics, and trajectory of mental health from the moon landing to the millennium.
Together, these three dimensions bring into conversation a diverse cast of late-century writers, filmmakers, actors, physicians, politicians, policy-makers, and social critics. In doing so, Martin Halliwell’s Voices of Mental Health breaks new ground in deepening our understanding of the place, politics, and trajectory of mental health from the moon landing to the millennium.
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MARTIN HALLIWELL is a professor of American studies at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. He is the author or editor of twelve books, including Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945–1970 (Rutgers University Press).
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"In this gracefully argued, erudite study, Martin Halliwell places the complex issue of mental health at the centre of the history of the decades since Jimmy Carter’s Commission on Mental Health in 1977. It is a model of interdisciplinary scholarship, equally at home with federal public health policy and the cultural politics of identity and community."
— Jonathan Bell, Professor of American History, University College London"Professor Halliwell breaks new ground in understanding the place, politics, and trajectory of mental health from the moon landing to the millennium"
— University of Leicester Press Office"Topics include the voices of patients and former patients in survivor narratives, and through advocacy and support groups."
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction
1 - Part One. The Health Legacy of the 1970s
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1. Health Debates at the Bicentennial
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2. Wounds and Memories of War
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3. Addiction and the War on Drugs
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4. Dementia and the Language of Aging
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5. Developmental Disabilities beyond the Empty Fortress
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6. Body Image, Anorexia, and the Mass Media
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7. Disorders of Mood and Identity
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8. Mental Health at the Millennium
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Conclusion
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Acknowledgments
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Notes
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Index
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About the Author
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September 2, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9780813576800
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9780813576800
Keywords for this book
mental health; mental disease; medical; diagnosis; case study; depression; schizophrenia; PTSD; bipolar; patient; patient care; psychology; psychiatric; psychiatry
Audience(s) for this book
For universities and colleges of further and higher education
