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(Corporealities: Discourses of Disability.) By Bradley Lewis. 198 pp. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2006. $70 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). ISBN 0-472-11464-6 (cloth); 0-472-03117-1 (paper).

It is not very often that we find a single voice with the ability to bridge clinical experience and scholarly investigation and, in doing so, find clarity and a vision that speaks to a broad audience. Bradley Lewis is that voice, coming to us as an advocate, provider, and consumer of psychiatric medicine as well as a scholar of philosophical and sociocultural thought. In Moving beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry, Lewis critically examines how psychiatric classification, diagnostic methods, and treatment practices fall short of identifying with and caring for the human condition. Other scholars have revealed the limitations . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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