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Mental Health in the War on Terror - Culture, Science, and Statecraft (Hardcover)
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Mental Health in the War on Terror - Culture, Science, and Statecraft (Hardcover)
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Neil Krishan Aggarwal's timely study finds that mental-health and
biomedical professionals have created new forms of knowledge and
practice in their desire to understand and fight terrorism. In the
process, the state has used psychiatrists and psychologists to
furnish knowledge on undesirable populations, and psychiatrists and
psychologists have protected state interests. Professional
interpretation, like all interpretations, is subject to cultural
forces. Drawing on cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology,
Aggarwal analyzes the transformation of definitions for normal and
abnormal behavior in a vast array of sources: government documents,
professional bioethical debates, legal motions and opinions,
psychiatric and psychological scholarship, media publications, and
policy briefs. Critical themes emerge on the use of mental health
in awarding or denying disability to returning veterans,
characterizing the confinement of Guantanamo detainees,
contextualizing the actions of suicide bombers, portraying Muslim
and Arab populations in psychiatric and psychological scholarship,
illustrating bioethical issues in the treatment of detainees, and
supplying the knowledge and practice to deradicalize terrorists.
Throughout, Aggarwal explores this fascinating, troublesome
transformation of mental-health science into a potential instrument
of counterterrorism.
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