Antipsychiatric activism and feminism: the use of film and text to question biomedicine

Journal of Public Mental Health

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 42-47

  Wiener, Diane ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antipsychiatry; Biomedicine; Disability rights; Feminism; Psychiatric survivors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992975926     PISSN: 17465729     EISSN: 20428731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17465729200500023     Document Type: Review

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