“A stunning and disturbing book. Jonathan Metzl shows how white fears of black militancy, radical shifts in diagnoses, the pharmaceutical industry’s promotion of new anti-psychotic drugs, and the rise of a carceral state converged to invent the schizophrenic Negro. The Protest Psychosis is a compelling cultural history that exposes postwar psychiatry’s racist character and its enduring legacy.”
—Robin D. G. Kelley, author Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
“Meticulously researched and brilliantly written, Carole Joffe's Dispatches from the Abortion Wars is a MUST READ for anyone who seeks to understand why abortion remains such a divisive issue in the 21st century US. Joffe provides a clear-eyed and sobering account of just how successful a small number of antiabortion extremists have been in denying abortion care to American women. Most enlightening and moving are Joffe's portraits of abortion providers and their patients whose stories allow the reader to see the cruelty and misogyny at the heart of the antiabortionists' attempts to impose ‘One size fits all’ rules.”
—Suzanne T Poppema, MD, author of Why I Am an Abortion Doctor; Chair, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health
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