In boldly conceived episodes, Whooley deftly shows how psychiatrists repeatedly and optimistically reinvented their discipline when faced with professional crises., On the Heels of Ignorance is a substantial achievement, addressing a core puzzle in the history of psychiatry. Whooley gives us an arresting interpretation of American psychiatry's history, challenges, and resiliency, from its origins in the nineteenth-century asylum to its recent embrace of neuroscience. This is a thoughtprovoking work that merits a wide readership and inclusion on sociology and history syllabi., An insightful, thought-provoking book that raises interesting questions on the development of the profession., Essential reading for anyone interested in psychiatry's past fortunes and future prospects. This is a thought-provoking work that merits a wide readership and inclusion on sociology and history syllabi., On the Heels of Ignorance is an innovative, carefully argued and marvelously executed work. The result is a fascinating account of the process of collective forgetting that offers not only an original insight into Christian-Jewish relations after the Holocaust, but also a significant contribution to the reflection on the social mechanisms of remembrance and identity-building.On the Heels of Ignorance offers historians and students of American psychiatry a new and constructive heuristic., On the Heels of Ignorance is an innovative, carefully argued and marvelously executed work.
The authors revisited the material from the fieldwork carried out 25 years ago and compared it with the interviews collected recently with the younger generation of Poles. This book addresses this contested topic in an interdisciplinary way, integrating the approaches of memory studies, social anthropology and sociology. Seventy-five years after the Holocaust, Poland’s approach to its murdered Jewish community still remains a highly debated and often politicized issue. Genre: Political Science,Books,Politics & Current Events,Nonfiction,Social Science,Sociology,Anthropology,History,Society,Health, Mind & Body,Psychology,Public Administration,.Author : Jacek Nowak, Slawomir Kapralski & Dariusz Niedzwiedzki.
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