{"product_id":"9780226831855","title":"In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eA look at the history of psychiatry's foundational impact on the lives of queer and gender-variant people. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the mid-twentieth century, American psychiatrists proclaimed homosexuality a mental disorder, one that was treatable and amenable to cure. Drawing on a collection of previously unexamined case files from St. Elizabeths Hospital, \u003ci\u003eIn the Shadow of Diagnosis\u003c\/i\u003e explores the encounter between psychiatry and queer and gender-variant people in the mid- to late-twentieth-century United States. It examines psychiatrists' investments in understanding homosexuality as a dire psychiatric condition, a judgment that garnered them tremendous power and authority at a time that historians have characterized as psychiatry's \"golden age.\" That stigmatizing diagnosis made a deep and lasting impact, too, on queer people, shaping gay life and politics in indelible ways. \u003ci\u003eIn the Shadow of Diagnosis\u003c\/i\u003e helps us understand the adhesive and ongoing connection between queerness and sickness. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50076334915824,"sku":"9780226831855","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226831855_p0.jpg?v=1784728164","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226831855","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}