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Published August, 2019
By Carol Berkenkotter and Cristina Hanganu-Bresch
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
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A study of the linguistic negotiations at the heart of mental illness identification and patient diagnosis. Through an examination of psychiatric case records from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book shows how the work of psychiatry was navigated by patients, families, doctors, the general public, and the legal system.

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Published December, 2017
By Sheila R. Morris and Harlan Greene
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
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A collection of essays by South Carolina activists on the development of the LGBTQ movement

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Published April, 2017
By Andrew Farah
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An innovative biography and the first forensic psychiatric examination of author Ernest Hemingway. Andrew Farah, a forensic psychiatrist, has concluded that the writer's diagnoses were incorrect. Contrary to the commonly accepted diagnoses of bipolar disorder and alcoholism, Farah provides a comprehensive explanation of the medical conditions that led to Hemingway's suicide.

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Published June, 2014
By Charles S. Bryan
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Published April, 2013
By Amy Koerber
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Published June, 2010
By Kay K Moss
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Explores methods of cure during a time when the South relied more heavily on homespun remedies than on professionally prescribed treatments. Bringing to light several previously unpublished primary sources, Kay K. Moss inventories the medical ingredients and practices adopted by physicians, herb women, yeoman farmers, plantation mistresses, merchants, tradesmen, preachers, and quacks alike.

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Published November, 2008
By Carol Berkenkotter
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Looks into communicating psychiatric patient histories, from the asylum years to the clinics of today. This book examines the evolving role of case history narratives in the growth of psychiatry as a medical profession.

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