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Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936-1968 (Rochester Studies in Medical History)
Phd Dennis A Dennis A. Doyle
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Hardcover. Reveals the history of the individuals who worked to make psychiatry more available to Harlem's black community in the early Civil Rights Era. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJ; JFSL3; MBX; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 582.
Reveals the history of the individuals who worked to make psychiatry more available to Harlem's black community in the early Civil Rights Era. Toward the middle of the twentieth century, African Americans in New York City began to receive increased access to mental health care in some facilities within the city's mental health system. This study documents how and why this important change in public health-and in public opinion on race-occurred. Drawing on records from New York's children's courts, Harlem's public schools, Columbia University, and the Department of Hospitals, Dennis Doyle tells here the story of the American psychiatrists ... Read more
Reveals the history of the individuals who worked to make psychiatry more available to Harlem's black community in the early Civil Rights Era. Toward the middle of the twentieth century, African Americans in New York City began to receive increased access to mental health care in some facilities within the city's mental health system. This study documents how and why this important change in public health-and in public opinion on race-occurred. Drawing on records from New York's children's courts, Harlem's public schools, Columbia University, and the Department of Hospitals, Dennis Doyle tells here the story of the American psychiatrists ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Rochester Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Rochester, United States
ISBN
9781580464925
SKU
V9781580464925
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Reviews for Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936-1968 (Rochester Studies in Medical History)
Meticulously researched. . . . Doyle's work is a historiography of midcentury psychiatry's struggles with race embedded in the history of the conservatism of the Cold War and the struggle for civil rights in New York City. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division medical humanities and graduate collections.
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