Women and the Ownership of PMS: The Structuring of a Psychiatric Disorder

by Anne Figert

Overview

This is the first book-length account of the controversy preceding and following the APA’s decision in 1986 to include a premenstrually related diagnosis in its revised diagnostic manual, DSM III-R. Figert examines why the decision was controversial and consequential in three main domains where people, their interests, and claims to ownership coincide: the Health and Mental Health Domain, the Woman Domain, and the Science Domain.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351471398
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/04/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	191
Lexile:	1410L (what's this?)
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Anne E. Figert is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Loyola University, Chicago. Dr. Figert received her Ph.D. from Indiana University at Bloom­ington. She is the author of publications on the relationship of science and sociology as well as women and health.

Table of Contents

I: Setting the Stage; 1: Is PMS Real?: PMS as Scientific and Cultural Artifact; 2: Setting the Stage: The DSM and the American Psychiatric Association; 3: The Narrative: From PMS to PDD to LLPDD; II: The Three Domains of Conflict; 4: Accounting for the Controversy; 5: Inter- and Intraprofessional Boundary Disputes: The Health and Mental Health Domain; 6: Who Defines a Normal and Healthy Woman?: The Woman Domain; 7: The “Truth” about PMS and LLPDD: The Science Domain; III: Settling the Conflict; 8: Who Won? Implications and Conclusions; 9: Afterword: DSM-IV and the Controversy Revisited

Editorial Reviews

"Placing her texts in social, poltical, and professional contexts, [Figert] offers a nuanced analysis of multiple realities." Catherine Kohler Riessman, Contemporary Sociology

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