The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America

by Elizabeth Lunbeck

Book Overview

In the years between 1900 and 1930, American psychiatrists transformed their profession from a marginal science focused primarily on the care of the mentally ill into a powerful discipline concerned... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691048045
• ISBN13: 9780691048048
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.8" x 10.0"