num_pages: 448
description: For centuries scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill confining many to asylums. In Nobodys Normal anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigmafrom the eighteenth century through Americas major wars and into todays high-tech economy.Grinker infuses the book with the personal history of his familys four generations of involvement in psychiatry including his grandfathers analysis with Sigmund Freud his own daughters experience with autism and culminating in his research on neurodiversity. Drawing on cutting-edge science historical archives and cross-cultural research in Africa and Asia Nobodys Normal explains how we are transforming mental illness and offers a path to end the shadow of stigma. The preeminent historian of medicine Sander Gilman calls Nobodys Normal the most important work on stigma in more than half a century.
language: English
title: Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company