Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

by Roy R. Grinker and Roy Richard Grinker

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For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody's Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma--from the eighteenth century, through America's major wars, and into today's high-tech economy.

Nobody's Normal argues that stigma is a social process that can be explained through cultural...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0393531643

ISBN13:9780393531640

Release Date:January 2021

Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company

Length:448 Pages

Weight:1.48 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"

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