Women and the Ownership of PMS: The Structuring of a Psychiatric Disorder

By Anne E. Figert

Book Overview

This is the first book-length account of the controversy preceding and following the APA's decision in 1986 to include a premenstrually related diagnosis in its revised diagnostic manual, DSM III-R. Figert examines why the decision was controversial and consequential in three main domains where people, their interests, and claims to ownership coincide: the Health and Mental Health Domain, the Woman Domain, and the Science Domain.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202305511
• ISBN13: 9780202305516
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"