What's Wrong with the Poor?: Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty

by Mical Raz

Book Overview

In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. In her insightful interdisciplinary history, physician and historian Mical Raz examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout that decade, ending with President Richard Nixon's 1971 veto of a bill that would have provided universal day care. She shows that this cooperation between mental health...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469608871
• ISBN13: 9781469608877
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"