Download or read book Women, Madness and Medicine written by Denise Russell and published by Polity. This book was released on 1995-02-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the roots of modern psychiatry, its theoretical approach to women, and what shifting trends in diagnosis tell us about its social underpinning. Arguing at both an epistemological and empirical level, Russell challenges the biological base of conditions such as schizophrenia, depression, premenstrual syndrome, anorexia, bulimia and female criminality.