A history of stigma : towards a sociology of mental illness and American psychiatry

Using genealogical discourse analysis, this project examines how American psychiatrists utilized the concept of stigma in The American Journal of Psychiatry as it relates to illness and treatment from 1846-2007. Once historicized, stigma takes the form of four themes, i.e. the stigma of psychiatric...

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Main Author: Donovan, Joan
Format: Others
Published: 2008
Online Access:http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/976135/1/MR45460.pdf
Donovan, Joan <http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/view/creators/Donovan=3AJoan=3A=3A.html> (2008) A history of stigma : towards a sociology of mental illness and American psychiatry. Masters thesis, Concordia University.