Rethinking the Sociology of Mental Health

ISBN: 978-0-631-22185-2

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180 pages

March 2001, Wiley-Blackwell

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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.