Pure Madness
This book explores the tensions between themes of care and control in UK mental health policy. Building each chapter around personal interviews, the author, a journalist, looks at the political, medical, legal and community viewpoints to take an honest look at our attitudes towards mental health.
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- Full title :Pure Madness.
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This book explores the tensions between themes of care and control in UK mental health policy. Building each chapter around personal interviews, the author, a journalist, looks at the political, medical, legal and community viewpoints to take an honest look at our attitudes towards mental health.
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- Publication Date:2002.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:Hoboken
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2002.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (221 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780203986486, 0203986482
- oclc:ocn475946864
- LC Classification:RA790.7.G7L385 2003
- Dewey Decimal:362.220941
Table of Contents
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The state we're in; 2 How we got here; 3 Mad axemen and the growth of coercion; 4 A new law for the twenty first century; 5 The clamour for consumer control; 6 Taking care to the community; 7 Taking care to the home; 8 Taking care to the streets; 9 Life stories; 10 Carers the missing link; 11 The new meaning of community care; Index.
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