Women and the ownership of PMS: The structuring of a psychiatric disorder

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Terms and Organizations
Introduction
PART I: SETTING THE STAGE
	1 Is PMS Real?: PMS as a Scientific and Cultural Artifact
		The Science of PMS
		PMS as a Feminist Scientific Artifact
		Scholarly and Social Science Explanations of PMS/Menstruation
		Popular Images of Women, Menstruation, and PMS
		The PMS Industry
		What's at Stake in the Construction of PMS
		NOTES
	2 Setting the Stage: The DSM and the American Psychiatric Association
		The American Psychiatric Association
		Psychiatric Nosology and the Development of the DSM
		DSM-III and the Noe-Kraepelinian Shift
		The Relationship of DSM-III and DSM-III-R
		"Antipsychiatry," Labeling, and Psychiatry's Response
		Summary
		NOTES
	3 The Narrative: From PMS to PDD to LLPDD
		A Narrative
		Beginning the Challenge
		The Ad Hoc Committee and the Board of Trustees
		A Time to Regroup
		The Final Months of the Controversy
		Conclusions
		NOTES
PART II: THE THREE DOMAINS OF CONFLICT
	4 Accounting for the Controversy
		Multiple Accounts of LLPDD
		An Economic Account
		The Political Account
		The Rational Account
		Ownership, Domains and Social Worlds
		The Three Domains of PMS
		Summary
		NOTES
	5 Inter- and Intraprofessional Boundary Disputes: The Health and Mental Health Domain
		Sociological Theories of the Professions
		Framing LLPDD as a Professional Dispute
		The Health and Mental Health Domain Analysis
		Within the Medical Profession
		Cooperation or Continued Conflict?
		Internal Disputes and the Public Image of Psychiatrists
		Interprofessional Disputes
		Groups Outside the Health and Mental Health Professions
		Conclusion
		NOTES
	6 Who Defines a Normal and Healthy Woman?: The Woman Domain
		Feminism and the Women's Health Movement
		Women and Mental Health
		PMS and Feminist Community
		LLPDD and Three Gendered Ownership Claims
		Anti-inclusion Experts
		Proinclusion Expert Claims of Speaking for Women
		Women Speaking For and Claiming Their Bodies
		The Gendered Nature of the Controversy
		NOTES
	7 The "Truth" about PMS and LLPDD: The Science Domain
		The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
		Scientific and Technical Controversies
		LLPDD as Constructed by Sociology of Science Literatures
		The Science of PMS and its Research
		The 1983 Conference and Scientifically Defining PMS
		The Scientific Debate about PMS and LLPDD
		The Scientific Settlement of the LLPDD Controversy
		Conclusions: The Black Box of LLPDD
		NOTES
PART III: SETTLING THE CONFLICT
	8 Who Won? Implications and Conclusions
		Who Won the LLPDD Controversy
	9 Afterword: DSM-IV and the Controversy Revisited
		A Narrative of the Development of the DSM-IV
		The LLPDD/PMDD Work Group
		What's in a Name—Revisited
		Divisions Within the PMDD Committee
		The Settlement (The Irony and the Consequences)
		PMDD and the Drug Connection
		The Opposition Forces
		DSM-IV and Politics as Usual
		The Settlement
		Another Black Box But the Questions Remain the Same
References
Index