caa a22 4500 397524323 CHVBK 20180308164641.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19950201xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3097005 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.2307/3097005 Figert Anne E. Loyola University Chicago The Three Faces of PMS: The Professional, Gendered, and Scientific Structuring of a Psychiatric Disorder [Elektronische Daten] [Anne E. Figert] The case examined here concerns the 1986 decision by the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to include Late Luteal Phase Dysphoric Disorder (LLPDD)—a PMS-related diagnosis—in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition, Revised (DSM-111-R). Drawing on a social worlds perspective in the sociology of science, I argue that this controversy was not restricted to conflict between feminists and the APA as was portrayed in the popular press; nor, was it a natural result of scientific progress set within rational procedures of the revision process within the APA. Rather, I argue that as a result of sustained debate and conflict, the diagnosis of LLPDD assumed different forms and even became a different artifact: I) In the "health and mental health domain,” LLPDD became the object of struggle for professional control over mental disorders among the various scientific, medical, and mental health fields; 2) in the "woman domain,” LLPDD was defined as a result of struggle for control over the definition of a normal and healthy woman; 3) in the "science domain,” LLPDD was a site in which the definition of the "truth” about PMS was debated publicly and the knowledge used in settling social and policy issues in powerful organizations like the APA. © 1995 Society for the Study of Social Problems, Inc. Medical Practices nationallicence Social Problems Oxford University Press 42/1(1995-02-01), 56-73 0037-7791 42:1<56 1995 42 socpro https://doi.org/10.2307/3097005 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3097005 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Figert Anne E. Loyola University Chicago NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Problems Oxford University Press 42/1(1995-02-01), 56-73 0037-7791 42:1<56 1995 42 socpro Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford