Private Practices : Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science of Homosexuality and American Liberalism.

Private Practices examines the relationship between science, sexuality, gender, race, and culture in the making of modern America between 1920 and 1950, when contradictions among liberal intellectuals affected the rise of U.S. conservatism. Naoko Wake focuses on neo-Freudian, gay psychiatrist Harry...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wake, Naoko
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=432210
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1
  • A Man, a Doctor, and His Patients; 2
  • Illness Within a Hospital and Without; 3
  • Life History for Science and Subjectivity; 4
  • Homosexuality--The Stepchild of Interwar Liberalism; 5
  • The Military, Psychiatry, and "Unfit" Soldiers; 6
  • "One-Man" Liberalism Goes to the World; Notes; Index; About the Author.