Rethinking the Sociology of Mental Health Busfield Paperback Wiley–Blackwell

Rethinking the Sociology of Mental Health\n\nJoan Busfield (Edited by), J Busfield (Author)\n\n9780631221852, Wiley\n\nPaperback / softback, published 13 January 2001\n\n180 pages\n23 x 15.5 x 1 cm, 0.255 kg\n\nRethinking 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.\n\n1. Introduction: Rethinking the sociology of mental health: Joan Busfield. \n2. Reason, emotion and embodiment: is 'mental' health a contradiction in terms?: Simon J. Williams. \n3. Disability, impairment or illness? The relevance of the social model of disability to the study of mental disorder: Julie Mulvany. \n4. 'It's a small world': mental health policy under welfare capitalism since 1945: Mick Carpenter. \n5. Psychiatric diagnosis under]