The Psychiatric Team and the Social Definition of Schizophrenia An Anthropological Study of Person and Illness
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- References
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2016
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- References
- Index
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- The Psychiatric Team and the Social Definition of SchizophreniaAn Anthropological Study of Person and Illness, pp. vii - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996