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The Culture of Our Discontent: Beyond the Medical Model of Mental Illness
Meredith F. Small

Joseph Henry Press, 2006

By many estimations, the Western medical model of mental health is dangerously incomplete. If we step outside of the traditional disease model there are many new and different ways to understand, treat, and even accept mental illness. Culture - how we collectively live, interact, and view the world - frames our mental outlook. Arguably, culture even creates it. Western culture, for example, has completely embraced the medical model of mental ...

Female Choices: Sexual Behavior of Female Primates

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Meredith F. Small

Cornell University Press, 1995

A challenge to what females 'should' be doing
This is an essential read in the study of female sexuality. It may not have the right answers but it is nevertheless one of very few counter arguments to the view of male promiscuity and female choosiness. Small discusses the evolution of sexual reproduction and how this led to the logical conclusion that females 'should' be very choosy about the quality of the male or males they mate with. ...