{"product_id":"homosexuality-and-american-psychiatry-9780691028378","title":"Homosexuality and American Psychiatry","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 Libe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bayer's job in his tight, extraordinary packed bullet of a book is a particular one: to tell us what was at stake when the A.P.A. erased homosexuality from its list of mental diseases in 1973... Bayer's book takes us behind the scenes of this uneasy linguistic victory in a way we have never been taken before.\"--The Nation \"Ronald Bayer has now written a lucid, succinct, and eminently fair-minded account of the controversy, which resulted in the removal of homosexuality from the Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders.\"--Paul Robinson,The New Republic","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403691991383,"sku":"9780691028378","price":52.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691028378.jpg?v=1730484261","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/homosexuality-and-american-psychiatry-9780691028378","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}