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In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life
By Kunzel, Regina
- ISBN
- 9780226831855
- Publisher
- Univ. of Chicago
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Starred Review on April 5, 2024 | Social Sciences
Kunzel (history and women's, gender, and sexuality studies, Yale Univ.; Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality) offers an authoritative record of how queer and gender-variant people were historically perceived and oppressed by leading U.S. psychiatry professionals in the mid- to late 20th century. Her book draws upon previously unexplored case files from Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, DC. Benjamin Karpman, the psychiatrist who saw LGBTQIA+ patients at S...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
