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  • Deinstitutionalisation and After

    Post-War Psychiatry in the Western World

    Edited by Despo Kritsotaki, Vicky Long, Matthew Smith ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The book relates the history of post-war psychiatry, focusing on deinstitutionalisation, namely the shift from asylum to community in the second part of the twentieth century.After the Second World War, psychiatry and mental health care were reshaped by deinstitutionalisation. But what exactly was involved in this process? What were the origins of deinstitutionalisation and what did it mean to ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Preventing Mental Illness

    Past, Present and Future

    Edited by Despo Kritsotaki, Vicky Long, Matthew Smith ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book provides an overview of a diverse array of preventive strategies relating to mental illness, and identifies their achievements and shortcomings. The chapters in this collection illustrate how researchers, clinicians and policy makers drew inspiration from divergent fields of knowledge and practice: from eugenics, genetics and medication to mental hygiene, child guidance, social welfare, ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Destigmatising mental illness?

    Professional politics and public education in Britain, 1870–1970

    by Vicky Long ...
    Series series Disability History
    This historical study of mental healthcare workers’ efforts to educate the public challenges the supposition that public prejudice generates the stigma of mental illness. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book argues that psychiatrists, nurses and social workers generated representations of mental illness which reflected their professional aspirations, economic motivations and ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

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  • Mad World

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    ‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’ Dazed‘Exposes the underlying truth that capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with our wellbeing, and teaches us how to transform the ways we understand madness, illness, and disability to build a better world’ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, co-author of Health CommunismMental health is a political issue, but we ... Read more

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  • Disability

    The Basics

    by Tom Shakespeare ...
    Series series The Basics
    Disability: The Basics is an engaging and accessible introduction to disability which explores the broad historical, social, environmental, economic and legal factors which affect the experiences of those living with an impairment or illness in contemporary society. The book explores key introductory topics including:the diversity of the disability experience;disability rights and advocacy;ways in ... Read more

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  • The Routledge History of Disability

    Edited by Roy Hanes, Nancy E. Hansen, Ivan Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Histories
    The Routledge History of Disability explores the shifting attitudes towards and representations of disabled people from the age of antiquity to the twenty-first century. Taking an international view of the subject, this wide-ranging collection shows that the history of disability cuts across racial, ethnic, religious, cultural, gender and class divides, highlighting the commonalities and ... Read more

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  • Psychiatric Hegemony

    A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness

    by Bruce M. Z. Cohen ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive Marxist critique of the business of mental health, demonstrating how the prerogatives of neoliberal capitalism for productive, self-governing citizens have allowed the discourse on mental illness to expand beyond the psychiatric institution into many previously untouched areas of public and private life including the home, school and the workplace. Through ... Read more

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  • Exploring Disability

    by Colin Barnes, Geof Mercer ...
    The second edition of this widely used text has been carefully rewritten to ensure that it is up-to-date with cutting-edge debates, evidence, and policy changes. Since the book's initial publication, there has been an expansion of interest in disability in the social sciences, and disability has come to play an increasingly prominent role in political debates. The new edition takes account of all ... Read more

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  • Critical Perspectives on Mental Health

    by Vicki Coppock, John Hopton ...
    Over the last forty years, there have been numerous attempts to critique the theory and practice of mental health care. Taking its lead from anti-psychiatry, Critical Perspectives on Mental Health seeks to explore and evaluate the claims of mainstream mental health ideologies and to establish what implications the critiques of these perspectives have for practice. This text will be essential ... Read more

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  • Approaching Disability

    Critical issues and perspectives

    by Rebecca Mallett, Katherine Runswick-Cole ...
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  • Disability on Equal Terms

    Edited by Sally French, John Swain ...
    ′Disability on Equal Terms is not a Turgid and difficult book despite its accent on complex and challenging themes. It is a lively and important read′ - The Skill Journal, June 2009`[A] collection of highly readable and scholarly essays that reflect both the theoretical and practical implications of recent developments in the field. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in ... Read more

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