Month: October 2025

Book Review: Harry Yi-Jui Wu’s ‘Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization’

Book Review: Harry Yi-Jui Wu’s ‘Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization’


Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization by Harry Yi-Jui Wu (MIT Press: 2021) Harry Yi-Jui Wu’s Mad by the Millions traces the early efforts of the World Health Organization (WHO) to bring psychiatry into the domain of global public health. Drawing on extensive archival materials, Wu […]