Voices of Mental Health : : Medicine, Politics, and American Culture, 1970-2000 / / Martin Halliwell.
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 gr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (338 p.) :; 19 photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One. The Health Legacy of the 1970s
- 1. Health Debates at the Bicentennial
- 2. Wounds and Memories of War
- 3. Addiction and the War on Drugs
- 4. Dementia and the Language of Aging
- Part Two. Health Voices of the 1980s and 1990s
- 5. Developmental Disabilities beyond the Empty Fortress
- 6. Body Image, Anorexia, and the Mass Media
- 7. Disorders of Mood and Identity
- 8. Mental Health at the Millennium
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author