Moral panics, mental illness stigma, and the deinstitutionalization movement in American popular culture / Anthony Carlton Cooke.
This book argues that cultural fascination with the "madperson" stems from the contemporaneous increase of chronically mentally ill persons in public life due to deinstitutionalization--the mental health reform movement leading to the closure of many asylums in favor of outpatient care. An...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Summary: | This book argues that cultural fascination with the "madperson" stems from the contemporaneous increase of chronically mentally ill persons in public life due to deinstitutionalization--the mental health reform movement leading to the closure of many asylums in favor of outpatient care. Anthony Carlton Cooke explores the reciprocal spheres of influence between deinstitutionalization, representations of the "murderous, mentally ill individual" in the horror, crime, and thriller genres, and the growth of public associations of violent crime with mental illness. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783319479798 3319479792 3319479784 9783319479781 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 19, 2017) |