Title The psychiatric team and the social definition of schizophrenia : an anthropological study of person and illness / Robert J. Barrett ; foreword by Byron J. Good

Published Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1996

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Description xx, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series Studies in social and community psychiatry Studies in social and community psychiatry. Contents Machine derived contents note: 1. Schizophrenia in context -- 2. Time and space in a progressive psychiatric hospital -- 3. Professional domains and the dimensions of a case -- 4. Clinical teams and the 'whole person' -- 5. Documenting a case: the written construction of schizophrenia -- 6. Moral trajectories: from acute psychosis to 'chronic schizophrenic' -- 7. Historical formulations of schizophrenia: degeneration and disintegration -- 8. Contemporary formulations of schizophrenia: explaining the inexplicable -- 9. Schizophrenia for practical purposes -- 10. The person, the case, and schizophrenia -- Bibliography -- Index Analysis Schizophrenia Notes Bibliography: p308-332. _ Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Mental health care teams. Psychiatric hospitals -- Sociological aspects. Schizophrenia -- Treatment -- Social aspects. Schizophrenics -- Rehabilitation -- Social aspects. Social control. Social epistemology. LC no. 95043459 ISBN 0521416531 (hardback)

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