Women, madness, and medicine / Denise Russell.
Modern psychiatry is dominated by a biological medical understanding of mental disorder. But should we accept the conception of women this approach enshrines? Is it useful in dealing with mental distress or does it in fact act against women's interests? Denise Russell shows how the 'scient...
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Main Author: | Russell, Denise. |
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK :
Polity Press,
1995.
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