University of the Sciences Professor Co-Authors Book Examining Rhetoric of Mental Illness
June 21, 2019
June 21, 2019
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, June 21 -- The University of the Sciences issued the following news:
By Jenna Pizzi
Examining individual psychiatric case records from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a new book entitled Diagnosing Madness The Discursive Construction of the Psychiatric Patient, 1850-1920 studies the linguistic negotiations made to identify mental illness and diagnose patients. Cristina Hanganu-Bresch, PhD, assistant director of Writing Prog . . .
By Jenna Pizzi
Examining individual psychiatric case records from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a new book entitled Diagnosing Madness The Discursive Construction of the Psychiatric Patient, 1850-1920 studies the linguistic negotiations made to identify mental illness and diagnose patients. Cristina Hanganu-Bresch, PhD, assistant director of Writing Prog . . .