Private Practices
Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science of Homosexuality, and American Liberalism
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Artikelnummer:
9780813549583
Veröffentlichungsdatum:
2011
Erscheinungsdatum:
09.03.2011
Seiten:
282
Autor:
Naoko Wake
Gewicht:
530 g
Format:
233x156x23 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Langbeschreibung
Private Practices examines the relationship between science, sexuality, gender, race, and culture in the making of modern America between 1920 and 1950, when contradictions among liberal intellectuals affected the rise of U.S. conservatism. Naoko Wake focuses on neo-Freudian, gay psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan, founder of the interpersonal theory of mental illness. She explores medical and social scientists' conflicted approach to homosexuality, particularly the views of scientists who themselves lived closeted lives. In assessing how these dynamics worked to shape each other, Private Practices highlights the limits of the scientific approach to subjectivity and illuminates its strange career in modern U.S. culture.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1 A Man, a Doctor, and His Patients 2 Illness Within a Hospital and Without 3 Life History for Science and Subjectivity 4 Homosexuality: The Stepchild of Interwar Liberalism 5 The Military, Psychiatry, and "Unfit" Soldiers 6 "One-Man" Liberalism Goes to the World Notes Index About the Author