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This thesis critically examines the operation of domiciliary care for older people, applying a realist evaluation framework to the open system of provision and receipt of care in home settings. It thereby scrutinises conditions that enable or constrain good quality care in the h…

The thesis examines the emergence of anti-psychiatry since the early 1960s, addressing two questions: 1. Why did anti-psychiatry emerge at this time? 2. How influential is anti-psychiatry today? Anti -psychiatry was found not to consist of one identifiable set of' proposals, but…

This thesis examines the implementation of mental health reforms in Britain and Italy since the 1950s from a geographical perspective. Both countries have experienced the policies of deinstitutionalisation and community care, yet the timing, methods and outcomes of implementatio…