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Book Synopsis Halliwell examines the cultural history of modern American medicine and psychiatry focusing on the late twentieth century. He pays particular attention to the politics of the post-Watergate, bicentennial-era American nation and brings into conversation a diverse cast of writers, filmmakers, physicians, policy-makers, social critics, and public figures.
Trade Review"In this gracefully argued, erudite study, Martin Halliwell places the complex issue of mental health at the centre of the history of the decades since Jimmy Carter’s Commission on Mental Health in 1977. It is a model of interdisciplinary scholarship, equally at home with federal public health policy and the cultural politics of identity and community." -- Jonathan Bell * Professor of American History, University College London *
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Voices of Mental Health is a terrific contribution to the areas of contemporary American literature and culture, federal policy studies, and literature and medicine. Halliwell provides an impressive, vast amount of research.” -- Jacqueline Foertsch * author of Reckoning Day: Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America *
"Professor Halliwell breaks new ground in understanding the place, politics, and trajectory of mental health from the moon landing to the millennium" * University of Leicester Press Office *
"Topics include the voices of patients and former patients in survivor narratives, and through advocacy and support groups." * Chronicle *
