pen-pals might be interested in Ethan Watters' book, _Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche_.
What he describes might be called "DSM imperialism," in which U.S. visions of the nature of mental health and illness (represented by the American Psychiatric Association's _Diagnostic and Statistical Manual_) are exported and imposed on the rest of the world. -- Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
