Anne Figert

Women and the Ownership of PMS

The Structuring of a Psychiatric Disorder

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book-length account of the controversy preceding and following the APA's decision in 1986 to include a premenstrually related diagnosis in its revised diagnostic manual, DSM III-R

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 315g
• ISBN-13: 9780202305516
• ISBN-10: 0202305511
• Artikelnr.: 21451713

Autorenporträt

Anne E. Figert is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Loyola University, Chicago. Dr. Figert received her Ph.D. from Indiana University at Bloomington. She is the author of publications on the relationship of science and sociology as well as women and health.

Inhaltsangabe

I: Setting the Stage
1: Is PMS Real?: PMS as Scientific and Cultural Artifact
2: Setting the Stage: The DSM and the American Psychiatric Association
3: The Narrative: From PMS to PDD to LLPDD
II: The Three Domains of Conflict
4: Accounting for the Controversy
5: Inter- and Intraprofessional Boundary Disputes: The Health and Mental Health Domain
6: Who Defines a Normal and Healthy Woman?: The Woman Domain
7: The "Truth" about PMS and LLPDD: The Science Domain
III: Settling the Conflict
8: Who Won? Implications and Conclusions
9: Afterword: DSM-IV and the Controversy Revisited