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The Protest Psychosis How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

Paperback • 2011 • English

The Protest Psychosis How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

By Jonathan M. Metzl

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A powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness The civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But a very different civil rights history evolved at the Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Ionia, Michigan. In The Protest Psychosis, psychiatrist and cultural critic Jonathan Metzl tells the shocking story of how schizophrenia became the diagnostic term overwhelmingly applied to African American ...Show more

Health, illness and addiction: social aspects
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies

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ISBN

9780807001271

Publisher

National Geographic Books

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

The Protest Psychosis How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

Format

Paperback

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