Reimagining Psychiatric Epidemiology in a Global Frame
Reimagining Psychiatric Epidemiology in a Global Frame Psychiatric epidemiology, like the epidemiology of cancer, heart disease, or AIDS, contributes increasingly to shaping the biopolitics of…
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Reimagining Psychiatric Epidemiology in a Global Frame
Psychiatric epidemiology, like the epidemiology of cancer, heart disease, or AIDS, contributes increasingly to shaping the biopolitics of nations and worldwide health campaigns. It seeks to comprehensively trace the development of the discipline and the mobilization of its constructs, methods, and tools to further social ends. Despite the field's importance, this is the first volume of historical scholarship addressing psychiatric epidemiology.
Furthermore, its chapters constitute elements for that history as a global phenomenon, formed by multiple approaches. It is through this double lens--conceptual and social--that it envisions the history of psychiatric epidemiology. Those numerous historical paths have not resulted in a uniform disciplinary field based on a common paradigm, as happened arguably in the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease and cancer, but in a plurality of
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