Joan Busfield

Managing Madness (Psychology Revivals)

Changing Ideas and Practice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Psychiatry regularly comes under attack as a way of caring for and controlling the mentally ill. Originally published in 1986, this title explores the history and theory of psychiatry to illuminate current practice at the time, and shows why mental health services had developed in particular ways.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781138818699
• ISBN-10: 1138818690
• Artikelnr.: 41122867

Autorenporträt

Joan Busfield

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part 1: Theoretical Issues 1. Psychiatry and Medicine: Thought and
Practice 2. Conceptualizing and Identifying Illnesses 3. Deviance, Social
Control and Mental Illness 4. Medicine and Power Part 2: Historical
Developments 5. The Trade in Healing and Lunacy 6. Lunatic Hospitals and
Moral Treatment 7. The Establishment of Public Asylums 8. Custodial
Institutions 9. Inside and Outside the Asylum 10. Community Care 11.
Conclusion. Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.