Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders in the Age of World Citizenship, Experts, and Technology
Harry Yi-Jui Wu
Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders in the Age of World Citizenship, Experts, and Technology
Harry Yi-Jui Wu
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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