Mental health in the war on terror :: culture, science, and statecraft /

This study finds that mental-health and biomedical professionals have created new forms of knowledge and practice in their desire to understand and fight terrorism, and in the process, psychiatrists and psychologists have either worked uncritically to protect state interests or labored to protect un...

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1. Verfasser: Aggarwal, Neil Krishan (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
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Zusammenfassung:This study finds that mental-health and biomedical professionals have created new forms of knowledge and practice in their desire to understand and fight terrorism, and in the process, psychiatrists and psychologists have either worked uncritically to protect state interests or labored to protect undesirable populations from state control. Professional interpretation, like all interpretations, is subject to cultural forces. Drawing on cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology, the author analyzes the influence of the war on terror in the transformation of definitions for normal and abnormal behavior.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780231538442
0231538448
0231166648
9780231166645

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