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.Grinker infuses the book with the personal history of his family?s four generations of involvement in psychiatry, including his grandfather?s analysis with Sigmund Freud, his own daughter?s experience with autism, and culminating in his research on neurodiversity. Drawing on cutting-edge science, historical archives, and cross-cultural research in Africa and Asia, Nobody?s Normal explains how we are transforming mental illness and offers a path to end the shadow of stigma. The preeminent historian of medicine, Sander Gilman, calls Nobody?s Normal ?the most important work on stigma in more than half a century.? .

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Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
Author : Roy Richard Grinker Pages : 448
pages Publisher : W. W. Norton Company
Language : eng ISBN-10 : 53404242-nobody-
s-normal ISBN-13 : 9780393531640

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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.Grinker infuses the book with the
personal history of his family?s four
generations of involvement in psychiatry,
including his grandfather?s analysis with
Sigmund Freud, his own daughter?s
experience with autism, and culminating in his
research on neurodiversity. Drawing on
cutting-edge science, historical archives, and
cross-cultural research in Africa and Asia,
Nobody?s Normal explains how we are
transforming mental illness and offers a path
to end the shadow of stigma. The preeminent
historian of medicine, Sander Gilman, calls
Nobody?s Normal ?the most important work
on stigma in more than half a century.? .
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Author : Roy Richard Grinker
Pages : 448 pages
Publisher : W. W. Norton Company
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 53404242-nobody-s-normal
ISBN-13 : 9780393531640
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