Postpsychiatry / Patrick Bracken and Philip Thomas.

  • Bracken, Patrick (Patrick J.)
Date:
2005
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Physical description

304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Contents

Introduction : the times they are a changin' -- Doing their best -- Values, evidence, conflict -- What counts as evidence? -- The miracle drug -- The battle for acceptance : defining the relationship between medicine and the world of madness and distress -- The ring -- Foregrounding contexts : what kinds of understanding are appropriate in the world of mental illness? -- Losing Peter -- Mind, language, and meaning -- Beetles -- Ethics before technology : is 'treatment' the best way to think about mental health work? -- Narrative and the ethics of representation -- Meaning and recovery -- Citizenship and the politics of identity -- Are you local? : responding to the challenge of globalization in mental health -- The veil.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-294).

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    WM100 2005B79p
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0198526091
  • 9780198526094