In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life Harriet Fish Backus He can't rely on luck

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In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life Harriet Fish Backus He can't rely on luckA look at the history of psychiatrys foundational impact on the lives of queer and gender variant people. In the mid twentieth century, American psychiatrists proclaimed homosexuality a mental disorder, one that was treatable and amenable to cure. Drawing on a collection of previously unexamined case files from St. Elizabeths Hospital, In the Shadow of Diagnosis explores the encounter between psychiatry and queer and gender variant people in the mid