num_pages: 212
description: The work of inner-city emergency psychiatric units might best be described as "medicine under siege." Emptying Beds is the result of the author's two-year immersion in one such unit and its work. It is an account of the strategies developed by a staff of psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, and other mental health workers to deal with the dilemmas they face every day.
language: English
title: Emptying Beds (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care)
titlecomplete: Emptying Beds (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care) (Volume 27)
genres: Anthropology, Ethnography, Psychology, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 26
series: Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
publisher: University of California Press