The World Health Organization's post-World War II work on the epidemiology and classification of mental disorders and its vision of a "world psyche." In 1946, the World Health Organization undertook a project in social psychiatry that aimed to discover the epidemiology and classification of mental disorders. In Mad by the Millions, Harry Y-Jui Wu examines the WHO's ambitious project, arguing that it was shaped by the postwar faith in technology and expertise and the universalizing vision of a "world psyche." Wu shows that the WHO's idealized scientific internationalism laid the foundations of…mehr
The World Health Organization's post-World War II work on the epidemiology and classification of mental disorders and its vision of a "world psyche." In 1946, the World Health Organization undertook a project in social psychiatry that aimed to discover the epidemiology and classification of mental disorders. In Mad by the Millions, Harry Y-Jui Wu examines the WHO's ambitious project, arguing that it was shaped by the postwar faith in technology and expertise and the universalizing vision of a "world psyche." Wu shows that the WHO's idealized scientific internationalism laid the foundations of today's highly highly metricalized global mental health system.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Harry Yi-Jui Wu is Associate Professor in the Cross College Elite Program and Department of Medical Humanities and Social Medicine at National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments vii 1 Introduction: A Shared Vision 1 Once an Internationally Shared Vision 10 Problematizing the History of Global Health 13 An Overview of This Book 19 2 Structure 27 Lessons of War 30 Mental Health as Public Health 34 The WHO Model and Early Efforts in Mental Health 38 The 1948 International Congress on Mental Health 40 From “Collection of Hunches” to Practice of Collaboration 43 New Issues in Mental Health after World War II 45 The Manageable Project and Four-Man Meetings 50 From Impediment to Collaboration: Ethnographic Approaches 55 Birth of an International Team 59 3 Method 63 The Need for a Common Language 65 US National Institute of Mental Health 71 The WHO’s Scouts and Their International Trips 72 1961: WFMH and World Mental Health Year 75 Seeking Peripheral Input 76 Realization of the “Common Language” Project 81 Significance of the WHO’s International Social Psychiatry Project 87 4 Experts 91 Africa and Latin America 95 Taiwan: The Ideal Bedfellow 101 Incomplete Decolonization 103 Chinese as Scientific Other 107 Taiwan as an International Laboratory to Understand the “Chinese” 109 Dreamscape of Experts 110 Imagined Equal Footing 111 5 Technology 115 Building Internationalism 116 Classification as Standardization 117 Information Technology 119 Standardizing Diagnostic Tools 121 Translation, Language, and Misunderstandings: Problems with the PSE 124 A Managerial Leader 126 The Promises of Technology 128 Videotaping 128 Data Management Technology 132 Computing Software 135 Bewilderment about Technology 136 Fallacies of Neutrality 137 6 Discontent 141 Internally Contested Methods 142 Beyond Category Fallacies 146 Psychiatry in the Two Chinas 149 Original Equipment Manufacturing for World Standards 152 A Culture-Bound ICD 155 Mobile Experts across the Globe 158 Still One World, Many Cultures? 160 Epilogue: Return to the Matrix 163 Origins of the Gaps 165 The Undetermined Future of Mental Health Standards 167 Hearing Echoes from the Past 172 Archives 175 Notes 177 Index 219
Acknowledgments vii 1 Introduction: A Shared Vision 1 Once an Internationally Shared Vision 10 Problematizing the History of Global Health 13 An Overview of This Book 19 2 Structure 27 Lessons of War 30 Mental Health as Public Health 34 The WHO Model and Early Efforts in Mental Health 38 The 1948 International Congress on Mental Health 40 From “Collection of Hunches” to Practice of Collaboration 43 New Issues in Mental Health after World War II 45 The Manageable Project and Four-Man Meetings 50 From Impediment to Collaboration: Ethnographic Approaches 55 Birth of an International Team 59 3 Method 63 The Need for a Common Language 65 US National Institute of Mental Health 71 The WHO’s Scouts and Their International Trips 72 1961: WFMH and World Mental Health Year 75 Seeking Peripheral Input 76 Realization of the “Common Language” Project 81 Significance of the WHO’s International Social Psychiatry Project 87 4 Experts 91 Africa and Latin America 95 Taiwan: The Ideal Bedfellow 101 Incomplete Decolonization 103 Chinese as Scientific Other 107 Taiwan as an International Laboratory to Understand the “Chinese” 109 Dreamscape of Experts 110 Imagined Equal Footing 111 5 Technology 115 Building Internationalism 116 Classification as Standardization 117 Information Technology 119 Standardizing Diagnostic Tools 121 Translation, Language, and Misunderstandings: Problems with the PSE 124 A Managerial Leader 126 The Promises of Technology 128 Videotaping 128 Data Management Technology 132 Computing Software 135 Bewilderment about Technology 136 Fallacies of Neutrality 137 6 Discontent 141 Internally Contested Methods 142 Beyond Category Fallacies 146 Psychiatry in the Two Chinas 149 Original Equipment Manufacturing for World Standards 152 A Culture-Bound ICD 155 Mobile Experts across the Globe 158 Still One World, Many Cultures? 160 Epilogue: Return to the Matrix 163 Origins of the Gaps 165 The Undetermined Future of Mental Health Standards 167 Hearing Echoes from the Past 172 Archives 175 Notes 177 Index 219
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