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Women, Madness and Medicine

Women, Madness and Medicine

by Denise Russell (Author)

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    Paperback 1994

    $23.31
Synopsis

This looks at the roots of modern psychiatry, its theoretical approach to women, and what shifting trends in diagnosis tell us about its social underpinning. Arguing that both an epistemological and empirical level, Russell challenges the biological base of conditions such as schizophrenia, depression, premenstrual syndrome, anorexia and bulimia and female criminality.

$23.31

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10 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 204
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Polity
Published: 15 Jan 1994
ISBN 10: 074561261X
ISBN 13: 9780745612614

Media Reviews
a Her book beautifully integrates Phyllis Chestera s seminal work, Women and Madness. Must reading for upper--division undergraduates, graduates, and professional practitioners in all fields relating to womena s health.a Choice a ... In this comprehensive critique she systematically analyses and dismisses the bases of psychiatric intervention into the lives of women... What Russell has accomplished in this excellent book is to draw together a number of different arguments, each of which has been covered by other writers, under this one comprehensive assault on the epistemological base of biological psychiatry. Denise Russell is to be congratulated in presenting this timely reminder that the debate goes on.a History of the Human Sciences a Women, Madness and Medicine continues (or more accurately, restates) a tradition in the feminist critique of the mental health professions whose roots are in the work of Phyllis Chesler, the original analyst of the parallels between patriarchy and psychotherapy ... useful and interesting commentary and reviews.a Contemporary Psychology
Author Bio
Denise Russell is Senior Lecturer in the Department of General Philosophy at the University of Sydney.