Collaborative ethnographic working in mental health : knowledge, power and hope in an age of bureaucratic accountability /
"This book is an ethnographic exploration of mental healthcare, which uses both ethnographic research and personal co-ethnographic / co-authored narratives to show the experiences and limits of those bring treated for severe mental health issues, often in a hospital setting. Social science work...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2024
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| Summary: | "This book is an ethnographic exploration of mental healthcare, which uses both ethnographic research and personal co-ethnographic / co-authored narratives to show the experiences and limits of those bring treated for severe mental health issues, often in a hospital setting. Social science work on mental healthcare typically presents dominant clinicians exercising their power over patients by means of their expert knowledge. Drawing on anthropological research on bureaucratic accountability, the author suggest that the institutional setting dominates clinicians, such that their knowledge is responsive, reflecting a need to behave in legible, defensible ways"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 180 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0367722933 0367722941 9780367722937 9780367722944 |