The social organization of mental illness:

This book analyses changing definitions of mental illness and the way in which they have been reflected in the organization of health care. Lindsay Prior looks at the provision of medical and social services for people with serious psychiatric disorders, and shows how this both reflects and constitu...

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1. Verfasser: Prior, Lindsay (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London u.a. Sage 1993
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:This book analyses changing definitions of mental illness and the way in which they have been reflected in the organization of health care. Lindsay Prior looks at the provision of medical and social services for people with serious psychiatric disorders, and shows how this both reflects and constitutes the nature of mental illness
He demonstrates how sociological insights into the world of psychiatric medicine can be gained from an examination of the multiple ways in which disorders have been represented in, and through, the work of psychiatric professionals
Focusing on the transition from hospital- to community-centred services, the most important and far-reaching of all the organizational changes that have affected twentieth-century psychiatry, Prior outlines the rationales which lie behind this shift in emphasis, as well as other transformations in mental health service provision
Beschreibung:XIII, 225 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:0803984995
0803985002

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