Creating Mental Illness
University of Chicago Press (2002)
| Abstract | In this surprising book, Allan V. Horwitz argues that our current conceptions of mental illness as a disease fit only a small number of serious psychological conditions and that most conditions currently regarded as mental illness are cultural constructions, normal reactions to stressful social circumstances, or simply forms of deviant behavior. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Psychiatry Philosophy Psychiatry History Deviant behavior Labeling theory | |||||||||
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| Call number | RC437.5.H674 2002 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9780226353814 0226353818 | |||||||||
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