Harry Yi-Jui Wu, Mad by the Millions
Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organisation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22938948 |
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| Authors | China Mills (0000-0003-0615-234X, City, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1404-1405 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social History of Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-631X • E-ISSN: 1477-4666 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/shm/hkab111 |
| OpenAlex | W4236092653 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Those of us who work within or on the margins of Global Mental Health often grapple with the question of what is Global Mental Health, and when did it begin? Histories of Global Mental Health have been narrated in different ways and from different starting points, with some telling a linear chronological history starting anywhere from ancient history (Cohen et al., 2013) to the 1990 Caracas Declaration of Mental Health and Human Rights (Patel et al., 2018). Others, in common with this book, locate Global Mental Health’s history in the post Second World War construction of International Health (Packard, 2016). By focusing on the WHO’s role in the social psychiatry projects which would go onto play a foundational role in the construction of mental health as universal, Wu’s history gives us a way of tracing the labour, relationships and technologies that put the ‘global’ into mental health. This is a story of the contingency of global knowledge production in mental health—of sometimes unlikely key players, important ideas and events, relationships and agenda setting.
Declaration · Global health · Global mental health · Health care · Human rights · Mental health · Political science · Psychiatry · Sociology · World history · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History of Science and Medicine · Law · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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