Rethinking the Sociology of Mental Health

Rethinking the Sociology of Mental Health is a collection of original papers introducing new ways of thinking sociologically about the terrain of mental health. There are more general papers about mental health and mental health policy and papers about specific types of mental illness and particular policy issues such as dangerousness.

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

Acknowledgements

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Introduction: Rethinking the sociology of mental health

1

(16)

Joan Busfield

Reason, emotion and embodiment: is `mental' health a contradiction in terms?

17

(22)

Simon J. Williams

Disability, impairment or illness? The relevance of the social model of disability to the study of mental disorder

39

(19)

Julie Mulvany

`It's a small world': mental health policy under welfare capitalism since 1945

58

(18)

Mick Carpenter

Psychiatric diagnosis under conditions of uncertainty: personality disorder, science and professional legitimacy

76

(19)

Nick Manning

A phenomenology of fear: Merleau-Ponty and agoraphobic life-worlds

95

(20)

Joyce Davidson

Identifying delusional discourse: issues of rationality, reality and power

115

(18)

Derrol Palmer

Civil commitment due to mental illness and dangerousness: the union of law and psychiatry within a treatment-control system

133

(20)

Bernadette Dallaire

Michael McCubbin

Paul Morin

David Cohen

Rethinking professional prerogative: managed mental health care providers

153

(19)

Teresa L. Scheid

Notes on Contributors

172

(1)

Index

173

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Rethinking the Sociology of Mental Health

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