Crazy like us : the globalization of the American psyche / Ethan Watters.
- Watters, Ethan.
- Date:
- 2010
- Books
About this work
Also known as
Globalization of the American psyche
Description
Journalist Watters explores the American exportation of how the world goes mad, arguing that as we introduce Americanized ways of treating mental illnesses, we are in fact spreading the diseases.
Publication/Creation
New York : Free Press, 2010.
Physical description
vii, 306 pages ; 24 cm
Contributors
Edition
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Contents
The rise of anorexia in Hong Kong -- The wave that brought PTSD to Sri Lanka -- The shifting mask of schizophrenia in Zanzibar -- The mega-marketing of depression in Japan -- Conclusion : the global economic crisis and the future of mental illness.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Languages
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicinePP.ROpen shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9781416587088
- 141658708X
- 9781416587194
- 1416587195