Mad by the Millions

Mental Disorders in the Age of World Citizenship, Experts, and Technology

Harry Yi-Jui Wu (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2021
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-04538-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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 system.

Autor

Harry Yi-Jui Wu is Assistant Professor and Director of Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.04.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Culture and Psychiatry
• Zusatzinfo: 6 black and white illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Studium
• ISBN-10: 0-262-04538-9 / 0262045389
• ISBN-13: 978-0-262-04538-4 / 9780262045384
• Zustand: Neuware