Mab Segrest

Gebundenes Buch

Administrations of Lunacy

Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum

Beschreibung

A scathing and original look at the racist origins of psychiatry, through the story of the largest mental institution in the world.

Autor

Mab Segrest is professor emeritus of Gender and Women's Studies at Connecticut College and the author of Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South, an Outstanding Book on Human Rights in North America and Editor's Choice for the Lambda Literary Awards, as well as Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry (both published by The New Press). A past fellow at the National Humanities Center, she lives in Durham, NC.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The New Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 164mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9781620972977
• ISBN-10: 1620972972
• Artikelnr.: 53482164