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Viola Bernard and the case study of race in post-war America
Damousi, Joy
Damousi, Joy
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Abstract
It is in the US that the case study genre is reinvented within a politicised psychiatric-psychoanalytical framework in the work of Viola Bernard. Bernard’s writings pose enduring questions about the relationship between activism and US psychiatry, politics and race relations. This chapter traces Bernard’s efforts to develop a new, authoritative and politically effective narrative through her case notes and advocacy about black subjects. This involved mobilising the case study genre in the public domain at large, for political as well as medical purposes, in the context of a turbulent period in US history.
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2017
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Book chapter
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A History of the Case Study: Sexology, Psychoanalysis, Literature
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189-214
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ACU Department
School of Arts and Humanities
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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Open access
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CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
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Open