On the Heels of Ignorance

Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing

Owen Whooley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2019
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-61638-4 (ISBN)

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Psychiatry has always aimed to peer deep into the human mind, daring to cast light on its darkest corners and untangle its thorniest knot, often invoking the latest medical science in doing so. But, as Owen Whooley’s sweeping new history tell us, the history of American psychiatry is really a history of ignorance. On the Heels of Ignorance begins with American psychiatry’s formal beginnings in the 1840s and moves through two centuries of constant struggle simply to define and redefine mental illness, to say nothing of the best way to treat it. Whooley’s book is no anti-psychiatric screed, however; instead, he reveals a field that has steadfastly muddled along through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving. On the Heels of Ignorance draws from intellectual history and the sociology of professions to portray an ongoing human effort to make sense of complex mental phenomena using an imperfect set of tools, with sometimes tragic results.

Owen Whooley is associate professor of sociology at the University of New Mexico and the author of Knowledge in the Time of Cholera, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.03.2019
Zusatzinfo	2 halftones
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Studium
ISBN-10	0-226-61638-X / 022661638X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-61638-4 / 9780226616384
Zustand	Neuware