the politics of diagnosis Bayer, Ronald creator author. text bibliography Classification Classification. nju 1987 monographic eng

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viii, 242 pages ; 22 cm. "In 1973, after several years of bitter dispute, the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association decided to remove homosexuality from its official list of mental diseases. Infuriated by the Board's action, a substantial number of dissident psychiatrists charged the association's leadership with capitulating to the pressures of Gay Liberation groups, and forced the board to submit its decision to a referendum of the full APA membership."--Back cover. From abomination disease -- Dissenting views: challenges to the psychiatric orthodoxy -- The emergence of homosexual protest -- Diagnostic politics: homosexuality and the American Psychiatric Association -- The aftermath of diagnostic change: psychiatry and the social status of homosexuality. Ronald Bayer ; with a new afterword on AIDS and homosexuality. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. Reprint. Originally published: New York : Basic Books, �1981. Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and index. n-us--- Homosexuality Psychiatry United States Mental illness Classification Psychology, Pathological Homosexuality Psychopathology Homosexualit�e Maladies mentales Classification Maladies mentales Classification Psychopathologie homosexuality Psychology, Pathological Homosexuality Mental illness Psychiatry United States RC558 .B39 1987 616.85/834 WM 615 B357h 1981a New York : Basic Books, �1981. 0691028370 9780691028378 86043142 DNLM/DLC 870624 20240131102146.0 ocm16278190 eng