The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
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In The Protest Psychosis , psychiatrist and cultural historian Jonathan Metzl provides an expansive history of how and why schizophrenia came to be associated with race. He sifts through a vast array of cultural documents, from media to films to archived hospital charts, to show how associations between schizophrenia and blackness emerged in the 1960s and 1970s-even as psychiatrists were beginning to understand the biological basis of the illness.
Author: Jonathan M Metzl
Format: Hardback, 288 pages
Published: 2010, Beacon Press, United States
Genre: Medicine: General
In The Protest Psychosis , psychiatrist and cultural historian Jonathan Metzl provides an expansive history of how and why schizophrenia came to be associated with race. He sifts through a vast array of cultural documents, from media to films to archived hospital charts, to show how associations between schizophrenia and blackness emerged in the 1960s and 1970s-even as psychiatrists were beginning to understand the biological basis of the illness.