Rethinking the sociology of mental health / 
[edited by] Joan Busfield. 
 - 182 pages ;  23 cm. 
 - Sociology of health and illness monograph series .
 - Sociology of health and illness monograph series. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : Rethinking the sociology of mental health / Joan Busfield -- Reason, emotion and embodiment : is 'mental' health a contradiction in terms? / Simon J. Williams -- Disability, impairment or illness? The relevance of the social model of disability to the study of mental disorder / Julie Mulvany -- 'It's a small world' : mental health policy under welfare capitalism since 1945 / Mick Carpenter -- Psychiatric diagnosis under conditions of uncertainty : personality disorder, science and professional legitimacy / Nick Manning -- A phenomenology of fear : Merleau-Ponty and agoraphobic life-worlds / Joyce Davidson -- Identifying delusional discourse : issues of rationality, reality and power / Derrol Palmer -- Civil commitment due to mental illness and dangerousness : the union of law and psychiatry within a treatment-control system / Bernadette Dallaire ... [et al.] -- Rethinking professional prerogative : managed mental health care providers / Teresa L. Scheid. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0631221859 9780631221852 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>00054682 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social psychiatry<br/>Mental health.<br/>Sociology.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC455  / .R48 2001 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.461