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.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 1995.
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Table of Contents:
  • History of the relationship between women and psychiatry
  • Modern psychiatric perspectives on women
  • Shifting trends in diagnosis
  • Epistemological problems with the dominant medical psychiatric perspective
  • Women, psychiatry, and criminality
  • Contrasting feminist philosophies of women and madness : oppression and repression
  • Women, creativity, reason and madness
  • Beyond psychiatry.