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Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945-1970
Halliwell Martin Wit
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Therapeutic Revolutions examines the evolving relationship between American medicine, psychiatry, and culture from World War II to the dawn of the 1970s. In this richly layered intellectual history, Martin Halliwell ranges from national politics, public reports, and healthcare debates to the ways in which film, literature, and the mass media provided cultural channels for shaping and challenging preconceptions about health and illness.
Beginning with a discussion of the profound impact of World War II and the Cold War on mental health, Halliwell moves from the influence of work, family, and growing up in the Eisenhower years to the critique ... Read more
Therapeutic Revolutions examines the evolving relationship between American medicine, psychiatry, and culture from World War II to the dawn of the 1970s. In this richly layered intellectual history, Martin Halliwell ranges from national politics, public reports, and healthcare debates to the ways in which film, literature, and the mass media provided cultural channels for shaping and challenging preconceptions about health and illness.
Beginning with a discussion of the profound impact of World War II and the Cold War on mental health, Halliwell moves from the influence of work, family, and growing up in the Eisenhower years to the critique ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813560656
SKU
V9780813560656
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About Halliwell Martin Wit
MARTIN HALLIWELL is a professor of American studies and deputy pro-vice-chancellor for Internationalization at the University of Leicester, U.K. He was the 18th chair of the British Association for American Studies (2010-13), he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and the author of eight monographs and two edited volumes, most recently William James and the Transatlantic Conversation. ... Read more
Reviews for Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945-1970
"Martin Halliwell offers fresh and inventive insights into the postwar period, showing mastery over an amazing range of material to demonstrate how fully the therapeutic triumphed in American culture."
Stephen Whitfield
author of The Culture of the Cold War
"Following varied terms of health and illness, mind and body, through successive changes in the healing arts, Halliwell ... Read more
Stephen Whitfield
author of The Culture of the Cold War
"Following varied terms of health and illness, mind and body, through successive changes in the healing arts, Halliwell ... Read more