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Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders in the Age of World Citizenship, Experts, and Technology
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Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders in the Age of World Citizenship, Experts, and Technology

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The World Health Organization’s post-World War II work on the epidemiology and classification of mental disorders and its vision of a world psyche.

In 1946, the World Health Organization undertook a project in social psychiatry that aimed to discover the epidemiology and classification of mental disorders. In Mad by the Millions, Harry Y-Jui Wu examines the WHO’s ambitious project, arguing that it was shaped by the postwar faith in technology and expertise and the universalizing vision of a world psyche. Wu shows that the WHO’s idealized scientific internationalism laid the foundations of today’s highly highly metricalized global mental health system.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Country
United States
Date
18 May 2021
Pages
200
ISBN
9780262045384

The World Health Organization’s post-World War II work on the epidemiology and classification of mental disorders and its vision of a world psyche.

In 1946, the World Health Organization undertook a project in social psychiatry that aimed to discover the epidemiology and classification of mental disorders. In Mad by the Millions, Harry Y-Jui Wu examines the WHO’s ambitious project, arguing that it was shaped by the postwar faith in technology and expertise and the universalizing vision of a world psyche. Wu shows that the WHO’s idealized scientific internationalism laid the foundations of today’s highly highly metricalized global mental health system.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Country
United States
Date
18 May 2021
Pages
200
ISBN
9780262045384