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Author Prior, Lindsay, 1947-

Title The social organization of mental illness / Lindsay Prior
Published London : Sage Publications, 1993

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Description xiii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- Social Representations and Social Worlds -- Changing Images of the Psychiatric Hospital -- The Diverse Objects of Psychiatric Theory -- Networks of Professional Practice -- Representations of Psychiatric Disorder in the Community -- Representations of Psychiatric Disorder in the Family -- The Social Worlds of the Hospital -- The Social Worlds of the Community -- Epilogue -- Representations of Mental Illness
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [200]-215
Subject Community mental health services -- Philosophy.
Mental illness -- Public opinion.
Mental illness -- Social aspects -- Australia.
Mental illness -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
Mentally ill -- Care -- Great Britain.
Mentally ill -- Deinstitutionalization.
Mentally ill -- Services for -- Great Britain.
Psychiatric hospital care -- Philosophy.
Psychiatry -- Philosophy.
Social psychiatry.
LC no. 93084109
ISBN 0803984995
0803985002 (paperback)