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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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- Title
- Mad by the Millions
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Harry Yi-Jui Wu
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 200
- ISBN10
- 0262045389
- ISBN13
- 9780262045384
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, Political Science & Politics, Psychological Topics, Politics, Psychiatry
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- 3.45 out of 5
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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.