The killing of a woman:  A qualitative and forensic investigation.
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780494160527
Subjects: Iatrogenic diseases.; Antipsychiatry.; Therapeutics -- Complications.; Women -- Mental health.; Women -- Health and hygiene.
Description: The Killing of a Woman: A Qualitative and Forensic Investigation is an ontological explication of the institutions of psychiatry and medicine with particular reference to women. I use my mother's lived experience as a "wedge" into the ideologically-mediated social relations constructed by these particular institutions.This investigation takes form, then, where the subjective---my mother and her experience as she lived it---enters into the social relations constructed through the intentions of the institutions of psychiatry and medicine.Using my mother's subjective experience as a wedge into an institutional ethnographical investigation means that I can ground the search as an exploration of the social from women's standpoint, and ask, "How do these institutions 'think'? How do they exist?" Put another way, "How is it that medicine and psychiatry do women in?"
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-06, page: 2506.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

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