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876347
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Whooley, Owen
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| Title & Author
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On the heels of ignorance : : psychiatry and the politics of not knowing /\ Owen Whooley.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: The University of Chicago Press,, 2019.
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1 online resource (1 volume)
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022661641X
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: 9780226616414
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022661624X
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022661638X
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9780226616247
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9780226616384
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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The general superintendence of all their departments -- Unruly ignorance and pragmatic eclecticism -- Ignorance repressed -- It takes a community to raise a profession -- Profession of the book.
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| Abstract
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The history of American psychiatry is a history of ignorance. Underlying psychiatry's repeated crises and its regular reincarnations, its faddish theories and epistemic somersaults, its egregious abuses and occasional achievements, is a stubborn inconvenient fact: the knowledge regarding the nature of mental distress remains elusive. Charged with imposing reason on madness, psychiatrists have conducted fruitless attempts to comprehend the essential character and mechanisms of mental illness. Madness evades understanding. Nevertheless, psychiatry endures. On the 'Heels of Ignorance' tells the story of psychiatry's unlikely resilience.
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Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
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Psychiatry-- United States-- History.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Diseases-- General.
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Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
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MEDICAL-- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL-- Diseases.
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MEDICAL-- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL-- Internal Medicine.
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Psychiatry.
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Psychiatry-- history.
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Attitude to Health.
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History, 19th Century.
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History, 20th Century.
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Prejudice-- history.
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United States.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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616.89
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| LC Classification
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RC443.W46 2019eb
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2019 G-102
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WM 11 AA1
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