Mad by the Millions Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization Ebook (sacbook.shop)

Mad by the Millions
Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health OrganizationThe 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. ISBN: 9780262045384, 0262045389