What's wrong with the poor? : psychiatry, race, and the war on poverty /

"In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. In her insightful interdisciplinary history, physician and historian Mical Raz examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout tha...

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Main Author: Raz, Mical
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Series:Studies in social medicine.
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