Women, madness and medicine / Denise Russell.

  • Russell, Denise.
Date:
1995
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About this work

Publication/Creation

Cambridge, Mass. : Polity Press, 1995.

Physical description

vii, 196 pages ; 23 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographic references and index

Contents

History of the relationship between women and psychiatry -- Modern psychiatric perspectives on women -- Shifting trends in diagnosis -- Epistemological problems with the dominant medical psychiatric perspective -- Women, psychiatry, and criminality -- Contrasting feminist philosophies of women and madness: oppression and repression -- Women, creativity, reason and madness -- Beyond psychiatry.

Notes

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Dillons

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    History of Medicine
    PP.W
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ISBN

  • 0745612601