Rethinking the sociology of mental health / Joan Busfield.
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TextPublication details: Oxford : Blackwell, 2000.Description: 184p. ; 23 cmISBN: - 9780631221852 (pbk.) :
- 0631221859 (pbk)
- 362.2 BUS
- RA790.5
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction: Rethinking thesociology of mental health.2. Reason, emotion and embodiment:\'mental\' health a contradiction in terms?3. Disability, impairment or illness? The relevance of the social model of disability to the study of mental disorder. 4. \'It\'s a small world\':mental health policy under welfare capitalism since 1945. 5. Psychiatric diagnosis under conditions of uncertainty: personality disorder, science and professional legitmacy. 6. A phenomenology of fear: Merleau-Ponty and agoraphobic life-worlds.7. Identifying delusional discourse: issues of rationality, reallity and power. 8. Civil commitment due to mental illness and dangerousness: the union of law and psychiatry within a treatment-control system. 9. Rethinking professional perogative: managed mental health care providers.
This volume consists of a selection of papers introducing new ways of thinking sociologically about the terrain of mental health.