{"product_id":"in-the-shadow-of-diagnosis-psychiatric-power-and-queer-life-9780226831855","title":"In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eA look at the history of psychiatry's foundational impact on the lives of queer and gender-variant people.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 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, \u003ci\u003eIn the Shadow of Diagnosis\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eIn the Shadow of Diagnosis\u003c\/i\u003e helps us understand the adhesive and ongoing connection between queerness and sickness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Regina G. Kunzel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226831855","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42917389041801,"sku":"9780226831855","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_81abc9e7-b932-4e90-b3a0-8ab653fc4fb2.jpg?v=1724135143","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/in-the-shadow-of-diagnosis-psychiatric-power-and-queer-life-9780226831855","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}