Trusting on the Edge: Managing Uncertainty and Vulnerability in the Midst of Serious Mental Health Problems
Author:   Patrick Brown ,  Michael Calnan
Publisher:   Policy Press
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9781847428905


Pages:   144
Publication Date:   18 April 2012
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Trusting on the Edge: Managing Uncertainty and Vulnerability in the Midst of Serious Mental Health Problems


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Author:   Patrick Brown ,  Michael Calnan
Publisher:   Policy Press
Imprint:   Policy Press
ISBN:  

9781847428905


ISBN 10:   1847428908
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   18 April 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

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Introduction: Risk and trust in late-modern society; Investigating trust: some theoretical and methodological underpinnings; Constructing knowledge through social interactions: the role of interpersonal trust in negotiating negative institutional conceptions; Bridging uncertainty by constructing trust: the rationality of irrational approaches; Vulnerability and the 'will to trust'; The difficulties of trust-work within a paradigm of risk; Trusting on the edge: Iimplications for policy.

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The authors have made a useful contribution to the health policy literature. Sociology of Health and Illness


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Patrick Brown is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on trust, the governance of risk, and connections between these two processes. Michael Calnan is Professor of Medical Sociology at the University of Kent. He has worked in health policy and health services research and training for over 20 years, with his current research interests including diffusion and innovation in health care and technology, trust and health care, dignity and the provision of health and social care for older people.

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