Postpsychiatry
By: Patrick Bracken, Philip Thomas.
Contributors: Thomas, Philip, 1949-
Series: International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780198526094
Subjects: Psychiatry -- Philosophy; Mental health -- Philosophy; Psychology, Pathological; Psychiatric ethics; Social control; Antipsychiatry; Mental Health Services -- trends; Psychiatry -- trends; Mental Disorders -- etiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The times they are a changin'; title: Doing their best; title: Values, evidence, conflict; title: What counts as evidence?; title: The miracle drug; title: The battle for acceptance: defining the relationship between medicine and the world of madness and distress; title: The ring; title: Foregrounding contexts: what kinds of understanding are appropriate in the world of mental illness?; title: Losing Peter; title: Mind, language and meaning; title: Beetles; title: Ethics before technology: is 'treatment' the best way to think about mental health work?; title: Narrative and the ethics of representation; title: Meaning and recovery; title: Citizenship and the politics of identity; title: Are you local? responding to the challenge of globalization in mental health; title: The veil.