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Author:   Joan Busfield
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.255kg
ISBN:  

9780631221852

ISBN 10:   0631221859
Pages:   180
Publication Date:   13 January 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Rethinking the sociology of mental health: Joan Busfield. 2. Reason, emotion and embodiment: is 'mental' health a contradiction in terms?: Simon J. Williams. 3. Disability, impairment or illness? The relevance of the social model of disability to the study of mental disorder: Julie Mulvany. 4. 'It's a small world': mental health policy under welfare capitalism since 1945: Mick Carpenter. 5. Psychiatric diagnosis under conditions of uncertainty: personality disorder, science and professional legitimacy: Nick Manning. 6. A phenomenology of fear: Merleau-Ponty and agoraphobic life-worlds: Joyce Davidson. 7. Identifying delusional discourse: issues of rationality, reality and power: Derrol Palmer. 8. Civil commitment due to mental illness and dangerousness: the union of law and psychiatry within a treatment-control system: Bernadette Dallaire, Michael McCubbin, Paul Morin and David Cohen. 9. Rethinking professional prerogative: managed mental healthcare providers: Teresa L. Scheid.

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Joan Busfield is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex.

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