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Madness Is Civilization: When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948-1980
Madness Is Civilization When the Diagnosis Was Social 19481980
Author: Michael E. Staub
In the 1960s and 1970s, a popular diagnosis for America?s problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. In this intellectual and cultural history, Michael E. Staub examines a time when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to obscene social conditions, psychiatrists were agents of repression, asylums were gulags for society?s undesirab...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226214634
ISBN-10: 022621463X
Publication Date: 10/10/2014
Pages: 264
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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