Crazy like us : the globalization of the American psyche / Ethan Watters.

  • Watters, Ethan.
Date:
2010
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About this work

Also known as

Globalization of the American psyche

Description

Journalist Watters explores the American exportation of how the world goes mad, arguing that as we introduce Americanized ways of treating mental illnesses, we are in fact spreading the diseases.

Publication/Creation

New York : Free Press, 2010.

Physical description

vii, 306 pages ; 24 cm

Contributors

Edition

1st Free Press hardcover ed.

Contents

The rise of anorexia in Hong Kong -- The wave that brought PTSD to Sri Lanka -- The shifting mask of schizophrenia in Zanzibar -- The mega-marketing of depression in Japan -- Conclusion : the global economic crisis and the future of mental illness.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    PP.R
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781416587088
  • 141658708X
  • 9781416587194
  • 1416587195