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Women, Madness and Medicine (Paperback)

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Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Polity Press (15 Dec 1994)
Language English
ISBN-10: 074561261X
ISBN-13: 978-0745612614
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.3 x 1.6 cm
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′Her book beautifully integrates Phyllis Chester′s seminal work, Women and Madness. Must reading for upper–division undergraduates, graduates, and professional practitioners in all fields relating to women′s health.′ Choice

′... 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.′ History of the Human Sciences

′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.′
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This book 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 at both an epistemological and empirical level, Russell challenges the biological base of conditions such as schizophrenia, depression, premenstrual syndrome, anorexia, bulimia and female criminality.

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