{"product_id":"mad-by-the-millions-isbn-9780262045384","title":"Mad by the Millions","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe World Health Organization's post-World War II work on the epidemiology and classification of mental disorders and its vision of a \"world psyche.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1948, the World Health Organization began to prepare its social psychiatry project, which aimed to discover the epidemiology and arrive at a classification of mental disorders. In \u003ci\u003eMad by the Millions\u003c\/i\u003e, Harry Y-Jui Wu examines the WHO's ambitious project, arguing that it was shaped by the postwar faith in technology and expertise and the universalizing vision of a “world psyche.” Wu shows that the WHO's idealized scientific internationalism laid the foundations for today's highly metricalized global mental health system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining the interactions between the WHO and developing countries, Wu offers an analysis of the “transnationality” of mental health. He examines knowledge-sharing between the organization and African and Latin American collaborators, and looks in detail at the WHO's selection of a Taiwanese scientist, Tsung-yi Lin, to be its medical officer and head of the social psychiatry project. He discusses scientists' pursuit of standardization—not only to synchronize sectors in the organization but also to produce a common language of psychiatry—and how technological advances supported this. Wu considers why the optimism and idealism of the social psychiatry project turned to dissatisfaction, reappraising the WHO's early knowledge production modality through the concept of an “export processing zone.” Finally, he looks at the WHO's project in light of current debates over psychiatry and global mental health, as scientists shift their concerns from the creation of universal metrics to the importance of local matrixes.Acknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e 1 Introduction: A Shared Vision 1\u003cbr\u003e Once an Internationally Shared Vision 10\u003cbr\u003e Problematizing the History of Global Health 13\u003cbr\u003e An Overview of This Book 19\u003cbr\u003e 2 Structure 27\u003cbr\u003e Lessons of War 30\u003cbr\u003e Mental Health as Public Health 34\u003cbr\u003e The WHO Model and Early Efforts in Mental Health 38\u003cbr\u003e The 1948 International Congress on Mental Health 40\u003cbr\u003e From “Collection of Hunches” to Practice of Collaboration 43\u003cbr\u003e New Issues in Mental Health after World War II 45\u003cbr\u003e The Manageable Project and Four-Man Meetings 50\u003cbr\u003e From Impediment to Collaboration: Ethnographic Approaches 55\u003cbr\u003e Birth of an International Team 59\u003cbr\u003e 3 Method 63\u003cbr\u003e The Need for a Common Language 65\u003cbr\u003e US National Institute of Mental Health 71\u003cbr\u003e The WHO’s Scouts and Their International Trips 72\u003cbr\u003e 1961: WFMH and World Mental Health Year 75\u003cbr\u003e Seeking Peripheral Input 76\u003cbr\u003e Realization of the “Common Language” Project 81\u003cbr\u003e Significance of the WHO’s International Social Psychiatry Project 87\u003cbr\u003e 4 Experts 91\u003cbr\u003e Africa and Latin America 95\u003cbr\u003e Taiwan: The Ideal Bedfellow 101\u003cbr\u003e Incomplete Decolonization 103\u003cbr\u003e Chinese as Scientific Other 107\u003cbr\u003e Taiwan as an International Laboratory to Understand the “Chinese” 109\u003cbr\u003e Dreamscape of Experts 110\u003cbr\u003e Imagined Equal Footing 111\u003cbr\u003e 5 Technology 115\u003cbr\u003e Building Internationalism 116\u003cbr\u003e Classification as Standardization 117\u003cbr\u003e Information Technology 119\u003cbr\u003e Standardizing Diagnostic Tools 121\u003cbr\u003e Translation, Language, and Misunderstandings: Problems with the PSE 124\u003cbr\u003e A Managerial Leader 126\u003cbr\u003e The Promises of Technology 128\u003cbr\u003e Videotaping 128\u003cbr\u003e Data Management Technology 132\u003cbr\u003e Computing Software 135\u003cbr\u003e Bewilderment about Technology 136\u003cbr\u003e Fallacies of Neutrality 137\u003cbr\u003e 6 Discontent 141\u003cbr\u003e Internally Contested Methods 142\u003cbr\u003e Beyond Category Fallacies 146\u003cbr\u003e Psychiatry in the Two Chinas 149\u003cbr\u003e Original Equipment Manufacturing for World Standards 152\u003cbr\u003e A Culture-Bound ICD 155\u003cbr\u003e Mobile Experts across the Globe 158\u003cbr\u003e Still One World, Many Cultures? 160\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Return to the Matrix 163\u003cbr\u003e Origins of the Gaps 165\u003cbr\u003e The Undetermined Future of Mental Health Standards 167\u003cbr\u003e Hearing Echoes from the Past 172\u003cbr\u003e Archives 175\u003cbr\u003e Notes 177\u003cbr\u003e Index 219“Harry Yi-Jui Wu has produced the first genuinely transnational history of psychiatry.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMatthew Smith, Professor of Health History, Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare, University of Strathclyde\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“In this tour de force, Harry Yi-Jui Wu examines how a group of ambitious professionals, motivated by utopian commitments to equality and world citizenship, and brought together by the newly established World Health Organization, developed the first uniform classification system of mental disorders.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eHans Pols, Professor, School of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney; author of \u003ci\u003eNurturing Indonesia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cu\u003e \u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This thought-provoking book convincingly demonstrates that global attempts at creating a universal psychiatric language were tightly related to broader social efforts to redefine world citizenship after the Second World War. It provides a much-needed historical background for understanding present-day discussions about global mental health.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eAna Antic, Professor, University of Copenhagen; author of \u003ci\u003eTherapeutic Fascism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eHarry Yi-Jui Wu is Associate Professor in the Cross College Elite Program and Department of Medical Humanities and Social Medicine at National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305520615653,"sku":"NP9780262045384","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262045384.jpg?v=1767732020","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/mad-by-the-millions-isbn-9780262045384","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}