Ian Hacking
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Mad travellers: Reflections on the reality of transient mental illness:
This text uses the case of Albert Dadas, the first diagnosed "mad traveller", to weigh the legitimacy of cultural versus physical symptoms in the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders. It also looks at... (more)
The social construction of what?:
Often lost in the debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what is being constructed. Ian Hacking looks at issues such as: madness; child abuse; and the ways in which... (more)
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