Book ID: CBB852074193

Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism (2016)

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Diedrich, Lisa (Author)


University of Minnesota Press


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 312 pages
Language: English

The experience of illness (both mental and physical) figures prominently in the critical thought and activism of the 1960s and 1970s, though it is largely overshadowed by practices of sexuality. Lisa Diedrich explores how and why illness was indeed so significant to the social, political, and institutional transformation beginning in the 1960s through the emergence of AIDS in the United States. A rich intervention--both theoretical and methodological, political and therapeutic--Indirect Action illuminates the intersection of illness, thought, and politics. Not merely a revision of the history of this time period, Indirect Action expands the historiographical boundaries through which illness and health activism in the United States have been viewed. Diedrich explores the multiplicity illness-thought-politics through an array of subjects: queering the origin story of AIDS activism by recalling its feminist history; exploring health activism and the medical experience; analyzing psychiatry and self-help movements; thinking ecologically about counterpractices of generalism in science and medici≠ and considering the experience and event of epilepsy and the witnessing of schizophrenia.  Indirect Action places illness in the leading role in the production of thought during the emergence of AIDS, ultimately showing the critical interconnectedness of illness and political and critical thought.

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Review Thomas R. Blair (2018) Review of "Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (pp. 114-116). unapi

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Brier, Jennifer M.
Padamsee, Tasleem J.
Beadle-Holder, Michelle
Vatanoğlu, Emine Elif
Setel, Philip
Saul, Jessie Elizabeth
Concepts
AIDS (disease); HIV / AIDS
Medicine and politics
Disease and diseases
Medicine and society
Public health
Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV)
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
Ancient
20th century
Places
United States
Canada
Tanzania (Tanganyika, Zanzibar)
South Africa
France
Africa
Institutions
United States. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA)
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