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Homosexuality and American psychiatry : the politics of diagnosis /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bayer, Ronald (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [1981]
Subjects:
Homosexuality.
Psychiatry > United States.
Mental illness > Classification.
Psychology, Pathological.
Homosexuality
Psychiatry
Psychopathology
United States
Homosexualité.
Psychiatrie > États-Unis.
Maladies mentales > Classification.
Psychopathologie.
homosexuality.
Psychology, Pathological
Mental illness
Homosexualität
Psychiatrie
USA
Homoseksualiteit.
Psychiatrie.
Psychiatry.
Classification.
Classification
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • From abomination to disease
  • Dissenting views : challenges to the psychiatric orthodoxy
  • The emergence of the homosexual protest
  • Diagnostic politics : homosexuality and the American Psychiatric Association
  • The aftermath of diagnostic change : psychiatry and the social status of homosexuality
  • Conclusion.