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Departing from deviance a history of homosexual rights and emancipatory science in America
title
Departing from deviance a history of homosexual rights and emancipatory science in America
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publisher
University of Chicago Press
publication year
2002
description
Departing from Deviance narrates the struggle to disentangle mental illness from representations of homosexuality. This struggle began in the late 19th century by scientific researchers finally culminating in the removal of homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1973.
education level
temporal
reviewer
Leo Valdes
was created by
Minton, Henry L.