Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization by Wu, Harry Yi-Jui

Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780262045384)

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Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization by Wu, Harry Yi-Jui

Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization

$35.00
Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization by Wu, Harry Yi-Jui

Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization

$35.00
Format: Paperback
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The World Health Organization's post-World War II work on the epidemiology and classification of mental disorders and its vision of a "world psyche."

In 1946, the World Health Organization undertook a project in social psychiatry that aimed to discover the epidemiology and classification of mental disorders. In Mad by the Millions, Harry Y-Jui Wu examines the WHO's ambitious project, arguing that it was shaped by the postwar faith in technology and expertise and the universalizing vision of a "world psyche." Wu shows that the WHO's idealized scientific internationalism laid the foundations of today's highly highly metricalized global mental health system.

Author: Harry Yi-Jui Wu
ISBN-10: 0262045389
ISBN-13: 9780262045384
Publisher: MIT Press
Language: English
Published: 04/13/2021
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
By Harry Yi-Jui Wu
By Harry Yi-Jui Wu
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Harry Yi-Jui Wu is Associate Professor in the Cross College Elite Program and Department of Medical Humanities and Social Medicine at National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan.

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