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What's Wrong with the Poor?: Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty (Studies in Social Medicine)
Mical Raz
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Paperback. Series: Studies in Social Medicine. Num Pages: 264 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JFFJ; JFS; JKSM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. In her insightful interdisciplinary history, physician and historian Mical Raz examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout that decade, ending with President Richard Nixon's 1971 veto of a bill that would have provided universal day care. She shows that this cooperation between mental health professionals and policymakers was based on an understanding of what poor men, women, and children lacked. This perception was rooted in psychiatric theories of deprivation focused on two overlapping sections of American society: the ... Read more
In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. In her insightful interdisciplinary history, physician and historian Mical Raz examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout that decade, ending with President Richard Nixon's 1971 veto of a bill that would have provided universal day care. She shows that this cooperation between mental health professionals and policymakers was based on an understanding of what poor men, women, and children lacked. This perception was rooted in psychiatric theories of deprivation focused on two overlapping sections of American society: the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Social Medicine
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469627304
SKU
V9781469627304
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About Mical Raz
Mical Raz, M.D., Ph.D., is a physician and historian of medicine. She is author of The Lobotomy Letters: The Making of American Psychosurgery.
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