Examines psychiatric epidemiology's unique evolution, conceptually and socially, within and between diverse regions and cultures, underscoring its growing influence on the biopolitics of nations and worldwide health campaigns. Psychiatric epidemiology, like the epidemiology of cancer, heart disease, or AIDS, contributes increasingly to shaping the biopolitics of nations and worldwide health campaigns. Despite the field's importance, this is the first volume of historical scholarship addressing psychiatric epidemiology. It seeks to comprehensively trace the development of the discipline and the mobilization of its constructs, methods, and tools to further social ends. It is through this double lens-conceptual and social-that it envisions the history of psychiatric epidemiology. Furthermore, its chapters constitute elements for that history as a global phenomenon, formed by multiple approaches. 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 psychiatric epidemiologies driven by different intellectual questions, political strategies, reformist ideals, national cultures, colonial experiences, international influences, and social control objectives. When examined together, the chapters depict an uneven global development of epidemiologies formed within distinct political-cultural regions but influenced by the transnational circulation and selective uptake of concepts, techniques, and expertise. These moved through multidirectional pathways between and within the Global North and South. Authored by historians, anthropologists, and psychiatrists, chapters trace this complex history, focusing on Brazil, Nigeria, Senegal, India, Taiwan, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, as well as multicountry networks.

About the Author
ANNE M. LOVELL, a medical anthropologist, is Senior Research Scientist Emerita at INSERM, France's national health institute. GERALD M. OPPENHEIMER is Professor emeritus at the City University of New York and Professor, Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. ANNE M. LOVELL, a medical anthropologist, is Senior Research Scientist Emerita at INSERM, France's national health institute. GERALD M. OPPENHEIMER is Professor emeritus at the City University of New York and Professor, Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.

Reviews
This book is a must-read for health professionals and historians who are interested in exploring the origins of current research including the legacies of colonialism. * SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE *



Book Information
ISBN 9781648250392
Author Dr Anne M. Lovell
Format Hardback
Page Count 340
Imprint University of Rochester Press
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g