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Author Aggarwal, Neil Krishan, author

Title Mental health in the war on terror : culture, science, and statecraft / Neil Krishan Aggarwal
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages)
Contents Mental Health, Culture, and Power in the War on Terror -- Bioethics and the Conduct of Mental Health Professionals in the War on Terror -- The Meanings of Symptoms and Services for Guantánamo Detainees -- Depictions of Arabs and Muslims in Psychodynamic Scholarship -- Depictions of Suicide Bombers in the Mental Health Scholarship -- Knowledge and Practice in War on Terror Deradicalization Programs
Summary This study finds that mental-health and biomedical professionals have created new forms of knowledge and practice in their desire to understand and fight terrorism, and in the process, psychiatrists and psychologists have either worked uncritically to protect state interests or labored to protect undesirable populations from state control. Professional interpretation, like all interpretations, is subject to cultural forces. Drawing on cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology, the author analyzes the influence of the war on terror in the transformation of definitions for normal and abnormal behavior
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed on December 23, 2014)
Subject War -- Psychological aspects.
Prisoners of war -- Mental health -- United States
Bioethics.
Mental Health -- ethnology
Bioethics
Bioethical Issues
Prisoners of War -- psychology
Terrorism -- psychology
Veterans -- psychology
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Terrorism.
Bioethics
War -- Psychological aspects
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780231538442
0231538448
0231166648
9780231166645