{"product_id":"in-the-shadow-of-diagnosis-psychiatric-power-and-queer-life","title":"In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life","description":"A look at the history of psychiatry’s foundational impact on the lives of queer and gender-variant people.\n\nIn the mid-twentieth century, American psychiatrists proclaimed homosexuality a mental disorder, one that was treatable and amenable to cure. Drawing on a collection of previously unexamined case files from St. Elizabeths Hospital, In the Shadow of Diagnosis explores the encounter between psychiatry and queer and gender-variant people in the mid- to late-twentieth-century United States. It examines psychiatrists’ investments in understanding homosexuality as a dire psychiatric condition, a judgment that garnered them tremendous power and authority at a time that historians have characterized as psychiatry’s “golden age.” That stigmatizing diagnosis made a deep and lasting impact, too, on queer people, shaping gay life and politics in indelible ways. In the Shadow of Diagnosis helps us understand the adhesive and ongoing connection between queerness and sickness.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 022683185X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.022683185X.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Kunzel, Regina\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41461191868474,"sku":"DBV.022683185X.G","price":22.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/022683185X-0.jpg?v=1781204801","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/in-the-shadow-of-diagnosis-psychiatric-power-and-queer-life","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}