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Protest Psychosis How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

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ISBN-10: 0807001279

ISBN-13: 9780807001271

Edition: 2011

Authors: Jonathan Metzl

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List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 4/12/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.01" wide x 9.01" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Jonathan M. Metzl is Associate Professor in the Women’s Studies Department and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan, where he also directs the program in culture, Health, and medicine. He is the author of Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs and Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease.

Preface The Protest Psychosis
Ionia
Homicidal
Ionia
Alice Wilson
She Tells Very Little about Her Behavior Yet Shows a Lot
Loosening Associations
Like a Family
Octavius Greene
The Other Direction
Categories
Octavius Greene Had No Exit Interview
The Persistence of Memory
Caeser Williams
Too Close for Comfort
His Actions Are Determined Largely by His Emotions
Revisionist Mystery
A Racialized Disease
A Metaphor for Race
Rasheed Karim
Turned Loose
Deinstitutionalization
Raised in a Slum Ghetto
Power, Knowledge, and Diagnostic Revision
Return of the Repressed
Rashomon
Something Else Instead
Remnants
Locked Away
Diversity
Inside
Remnants
Controllin' the Planet
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index