Women and the Ownership of PMS: The Structuring of a Psychiatric Disorder

Women and the Ownership of PMS: The Structuring of a Psychiatric Disorder
ISBN-10
1351471392
ISBN-13
9781351471398
Category
Medical
Pages
191
Language
English
Published
2017-09-04
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Anne Figert

Description

This is the first book-length account of the controversy preceding and following the APA’s decision in 1986 to include a premenstrually related diagnosis in its revised diagnostic manual, DSM III-R. Figert examines why the decision was controversial and consequential in three main domains where people, their interests, and claims to ownership coincide: the Health and Mental Health Domain, the Woman Domain, and the Science Domain.

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