{"product_id":"on-the-heels-of-ignorance-owen-whooley-9780226616384","title":"On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing","description":"Psychiatry has always aimed to peer deep into the human mind, daring to cast light on its darkest corners and untangle its thorniest knots, often invoking the latest medical science in doing so. But, as Owen Whooley's sweeping new book tells us, the history of American psychiatry is really a record of ignorance. \u003ci\u003eOn the Heels of Ignorance \u003c\/i\u003ebegins with psychiatry's formal inception in the 1840s and moves through two centuries of constant struggle simply to define and redefine mental illness, to say nothing of the best way to treat it. Whooley's book is no antipsychiatric screed, however; instead, he reveals a field that has muddled through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving. \u003ci\u003eOn the Heels of Ignorance \u003c\/i\u003edraws from intellectual history and the sociology of professions to portray an ongoing human effort to make sense of complex mental phenomena using an imperfect set of tools, with sometimes tragic results.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Owen Whooley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022661638X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226616384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/23\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2019","brand":"Owen Whooley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46526191337727,"sku":"9780226616384","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_28cb04c2-db94-46f9-af60-edd3cc47fbae.jpg?v=1737555454","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-the-heels-of-ignorance-owen-whooley-9780226616384","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}