Moral Panics, Mental Illness Stigma, and the Deinstitutionalization Movement in American Popular Culture by Anthony Carlton Cooke

Moral Panics, Mental Illness Stigma, and the Deinstitutionalization Movement in American Popular Culture

Anthony Carlton Cooke

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This book argues that cultural fascination with the "madperson" stems from the contemporaneous increase of chronically mentally ill persons in public life due to deinstitutionalization--the mental health reform movement leading to the closure of m...

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