LEADER 03746oam 22004574a 450 001 9910150196403321 005 20170922081352.0 010 $a1-4529-5203-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000942278 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4525956 035 $a(OCoLC)952139120 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse54170 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000942278 100 $a20160613d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aIndirect Action$b[electronic resource] $eSchizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism /$fLisa Diedrich 210 1$aMinneapolis, [Minnesota] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Minnesota Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (300 pages) 311 $a1-5179-0001-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: Contents -- Introduction: Illness-Thought-Activism -- 1. Doing Queer Love, circa 1985 -- Snapshot 1: Gregg Bordowitz's "The Order of Image Production," 2003 and "Queer Structures of Feeling," 1993 -- 2. Que(e)rying the Clinic, circa 1970 -- Snapshot 2: Felix Guattari's "David Wojnarowicz," 1989 -- 3. Enacting Clinical Experience, circa 1963 -- Snapshot 3: Samuel R. Delany's Happening, 1959 -- 4. Thinking Ecologically, circa 1962 and 1971 -- Snapshot 4: Frantz Fanon's "Colonial War and Mental Disorders," 1961 and Isaac Julien's "Fanon," 1996 -- 5. Drawing Epilepsy -- Snapshot 5: Disability Law Center's Investigation of Bridgewater State Hospital, 2014, and Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies, 1967 -- 6. Witnessing Schizophrenia -- Afterimage: ACT-UP's "Drugs into Bodies," the Near Present -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $a"The experience of illness (both mental and physical) figures prominently in the critical thought and activism of the 1960s and 1970s, though it is largely overshadowed by practices of sexuality. Lisa Diedrich explores how and why illness was indeed so significant to the social, political, and institutional transformation beginning in the '60s through the emergence of AIDS in the United States. A rich intervention--both theoretical and methodological, political and therapeutic--Indirect Action illuminates the intersection of illness, thought, and politics. Not merely a revision of the history of this time period, Indirect Action expands the historiographical boundaries through which illness and health activism in the U.S. have been viewed. Diedrich explores the multiplicity illness-thought-politics through an array of subjects: queering the origin story of AIDS activism by recalling its feminist history; exploring health activism and the medical experience; analyzing psychiatry and self-help movements; thinking ecologically about counter-practices of generalism in science and medicine; and considering the experience and event of epilepsy and the witnessing of schizophrenia. Indirect Action places illness in the leading role in the production of thought during the emergence of AIDS, ultimately showing the critical interconnectedness of illness and political and critical thought"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aMEDICAL / History$2bisacsh 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues$2bisacsh 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aMEDICAL / History. 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues. 676 $a362.19689 686 $aSOC057000$aMED039000$2bisacsh 700 $aDiedrich$b Lisa$01141040 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910150196403321 996 $aIndirect Action$92895998 997 $aUNINA