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 protesters at Ionia—for political reasons as well as clinical ones. Expertly sifting through a vast array of cultural documents; Metzl shows how associations between schizophrenia and blackness emerged during the tumultuous decades of the 1960s and 1970s—and he provides a cautionary tale of how anxieties about race continue to impact doctor-patient interactions in our seemingly postracial America.
#2935215 in Books Clearfield 2009-06-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.50 x 1.40 x 5.51l; 1.93 #File Name: 0806301767700 pages
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. 2nd Most definitive Complination of Service Records of Continental OfficersBy David M. DoughertyThis book is a "must" for researchers of the American Revolutionary War and genealogists working on their family trees. The author put together a list of all know officers in the COntinental Army and the various militias in 1892; and this book is a fascimile reproduction of author Heitman's book published in 1893. The author believed that he had entries for 90% of all such officers. The entries mostly give each officer's rank upon entry into service; dates of promotion; units; and other facts such as when captured; paroled; exchanged; killed; etc. However; for serious researchers this book was supplanted by a "New; Revised; and Enlarged Edition" in 1914 (Rare Book Shop Publishing Company) that contains more material; lists and entries. In my own research; the 1914 edition has proven to be more useful; so I recommend it in preference to the 1893 edition. Unfortunately; the 1914 edition is now rare and very difficult to find; so for the average researcher the reprint of the 1893 edition is far better than nothing.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A very valuable resource for genealogical research.By Darwin F. ConconThis is a great book for genealogical (also historical) research of ancestors serving as officers in the Continental Army. This book also complements information with another book I use for research: Encyclopedia of Continental Army Units: Battalions; Regiments and Independent Corps by Fred Anderson Berg.An excellent combination.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Revolutionary War GoldmineBy Roger J. SchaapThe book was as described. If you're doing any research on family or the Revolution this book will help tell you if a person (Officers only) served; with who and when. Could be helpful to those doing DAR and SAR publications.
