Mad by the Millions
Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization
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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-262-36234-4
- EAN: 9780262362344
- Produktnummer: 34142934
- Verlag: MIT Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 6 B&W ILLUS.
Über den Autor
Harry Yi-Jui Wu is Associate Professor in the Cross College Elite Program and Department of Medical Humanities and Social Medicine at National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan.
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