Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936-1968

by Dennis A. Doyle

Reveals the history of the individuals who worked to make psychiatry more available to Harlem's black community in the early Civil Rights Era.

Toward the middle of the twentieth century, African Americans in New York City began to receive increased access to mental health care in some facilities within the city's mental health system. This study documents how and why this important change in public health-and in public opinion on race-occurred...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580464920
• ISBN13: 9781580464925
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"