Women and the Ownership of PMS

The Structuring of a Psychiatric Disorder
1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-202-30551-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 315 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Figert, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I: Setting the Stage; 1: Is PMS Real?: PMS as Scientific and Cultural Artifact; 2: Setting the Stage: The DSM and the American Psychiatric Association; 3: The Narrative: From PMS to PDD to LLPDD; II: The Three Domains of Conflict; 4: Accounting for the Controversy; 5: Inter- and Intraprofessional Boundary Disputes: The Health and Mental Health Domain; 6: Who Defines a Normal and Healthy Woman?: The Woman Domain; 7: The “Truth” about PMS and LLPDD: The Science Domain; III: Settling the Conflict; 8: Who Won? Implications and Conclusions; 9: Afterword: DSM-IV and the Controversy Revisited

Über Autor(innen)

Anne E. Figert is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Loyola University, Chicago. Dr. Figert received her Ph.D. from Indiana University at Bloomington. She is the author of publications on the relationship of science and sociology as well as women and health.