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Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism
Lisa Diedrich
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Description for Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism
Paperback. BIC Classification: JFFH; JPH; JPWD; MBN; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 45. Weight in Grams: 376.
The experience of illness (both mental and physical) figures prominently in the critical thought and activism of the 1960s and 1970s, though it is largely overshadowed by practices of sexuality. Lisa Diedrich explores how and why illness was indeed so significant to the social, political, and institutional transformation beginning in the 1960s through the emergence of AIDS in the United States. A rich intervention-both theoretical and methodological, political and therapeutic-Indirect Action illuminates the intersection of illness, thought, and politics.Not merely a revision of the history of this time period, Indirect Action expands the historiographical boundaries through which illness and health ... Read more
The experience of illness (both mental and physical) figures prominently in the critical thought and activism of the 1960s and 1970s, though it is largely overshadowed by practices of sexuality. Lisa Diedrich explores how and why illness was indeed so significant to the social, political, and institutional transformation beginning in the 1960s through the emergence of AIDS in the United States. A rich intervention-both theoretical and methodological, political and therapeutic-Indirect Action illuminates the intersection of illness, thought, and politics.Not merely a revision of the history of this time period, Indirect Action expands the historiographical boundaries through which illness and health ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
375 g
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9781517900014
SKU
V9781517900014
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About Lisa Diedrich
Lisa Diedrich is associate professor of women's and gender studies at State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is the author of Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness (Minnesota, 2007).
Reviews for Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism
Diedrich offers crucial new methodological resources and a rich and compelling counterarchive of theory, activism, and cultural practice that has the potential to unsettle and reorient our approach to understanding health and illness as both historical and urgently ongoing sites of political struggle. -Disability Studies Quarterly Complex yet disarmingly candid, Indirect Action queers the process of history itself, offering ... Read more