Women, madness, and medicine
By: Denise Russell.
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; Polity Press
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Women -- Mental health -- Sociological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: History of the relationship between women and psychiatry; title: Modern psychiatric perspectives on women; title: Shifting trends in diagnosis; title: Epistemological problems with the dominant medical psychiatric perspective; title: Women, psychiatry, and criminality; title: Contrasting feminist philosophies of women and madness: oppression and repression; title: Women, creativity, reason and madness; title: Beyond psychiatry.