Description
| Product ID: | 9780262045384 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Culture and Psychiatry |
| Title: | Mad by the Millions |
| Subtitle: | Mental Disorders in the Age of World Citizenship, Experts, and Technology |
| Authors: | Author: Harry Yi-Jui Wu |
| Page Count: | 200 |
| Subjects: | Psychology, Psychology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | MIT Press |
| Publisher Name: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-04-13 |
