{"product_id":"book-1x8b","title":"In the Shadow of Diagnosis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA look at the history of psychiatry's foundational impact on the lives of queer and gender-variant people.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003cem\u003eIn the Shadow of Diagnosis\u003c\/em\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. \u003cem\u003eIn the Shadow of Diagnosis\u003c\/em\u003e helps us understand the adhesive and ongoing connection between queerness and sickness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67150467891504,"sku":"BD1x8b","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/1x8b-Square-cover.png?v=1782488151","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-1x8b","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}