Descript |
304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Contents |
Introduction: 'The times they are a-changin'; Doing their best; 1. Values, evidence, conflict; 2. What counts as evidence?; The miracle drug; 3. The battle for acceptance: defining the relationship between medicine and the world of madness and distress; The ring; 4. Foregrounding contexts: what kinds of understanding are appropriate in the world of mental illness?; Losing Peter; 5. Mind, language and meaning; Beetles; 6. Ethics before technology - is 'treatment' the best way to think about mental health work?; 7. Narrative and the ethics of representation; 8. Meaning and recovery; 9. Citizenship and the politics of identity; 10. Are you local? Responding to the challenge of globalisation in mental health; The veil |
ISBN |
9780198526094 (pbk.) : |
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