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1 online resource (281 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 -- A Man, a Doctor, and His Patients; 2 -- Illness Within a Hospital and Without; 3 -- Life History for Science and Subjectivity; 4 -- Homosexuality--The Stepchild of Interwar Liberalism; 5 -- The Military, Psychiatry, and "Unfit" Soldiers; 6 -- "One-Man" Liberalism Goes to the World; Notes; Index; About the Author. |
| Summary |
Private Practices examines the relationship between science, sexuality, gender, race, and culture in the making of modern America between 1920 and 1950, when contradictions among liberal intellectuals affected the rise of U.S. conservatism. Naoko Wake focuses on neo-Freudian, gay psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan, founder of the interpersonal theory of mental illness. She explores medical and social scientists' conflicted approach to homosexuality, particularly the views of scientists who themselves lived closeted lives. In assessing how these dynamics worked to shape each other, Priva. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sullivan, Harry Stack, 1892-1949.
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Sullivan, Harry Stack, 1892-1949. |
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Gay psychiatrists -- United States -- Biography.
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Gay psychiatrists. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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Homosexuality -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Homosexuality. |
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History. |
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20th century |
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Politics. |
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Homosexuality, Male -- psychology. |
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Homosexuality, Male -- history. |
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History, 20th Century. |
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Psychiatry -- history. |
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Psychiatry. |
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United States. |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Biography.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Homosexuality. |
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wake, Naoko. Private Practices : Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science of Homosexuality and American Liberalism. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, ©2011 9780813549583 |
| ISBN |
9780813551074 (electronic book) |
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0813551072 (electronic book) |
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9780813549583 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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0813549582 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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