Emptying Beds: The Work of an Emergency Psychiatric Unit
Author:   Lorna A. Rhodes
Publisher:   University of California Press
Volume:   27
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9780520203518


Pages:   199
Publication Date:   18 November 1995
Format:   Paperback
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Emptying Beds: The Work of an Emergency Psychiatric Unit


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The work of inner-city emergency psychiatric units might best be described as ""medicine under siege."" Emptying Beds is the result of the author's two-year immersion in one such unit and its work. It is an account of the strategies developed by a staff of psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, and other mental health workers to deal with the dilemmas they face every day.

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Author:   Lorna A. Rhodes
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   27
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9780520203518


ISBN 10:   0520203518
Pages:   199
Publication Date:   18 November 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Starkness Was Everywhere 2 We Discharge in Ten Days 3 The Game of Hot Shit 4 History Modifies Our Fantasies 5 Whatever Takes Less Writing 6 Like Migrating Birds 7 It Is Impossible To Be Good Conclusion Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

Reviews

Rhodes' observations are couched in the theroetical formulations of Michel Foucault. . . . The description of the unit's activities are bloodcurdling and funny and precisely accurate. . . . Emptying Beds is a readable, accurate, and alarming work of anthropology. --Frank S. Pittman III, American Journal of Psychiatry


"""Rhodes' observations are couched in the theroetical formulations of Michel Foucault. . . . The description of the unit's activities are bloodcurdling and funny and precisely accurate. . . . ""Emptying Beds is a readable, accurate, and alarming work of anthropology.""--Frank S. Pittman III, ""American Journal of Psychiatry"


Author Information

Lorna A. Rhodes is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington.

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