Social Factors in the Outcome of Mental Illness
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منابع مشابه
The social construction of mental illness.
To what extent are mental disorders things-in-themselves; that is, entities determined by their intrinsic nature? How far are those disorders shaped by the very concepts physicians employ to define and classify them? To some, such questioning will seem madness itself, a recursive doubt about the validity of clinical observation, one that can only undermine the pragmatics of practice. To others,...
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To what extent are mental disorders things-in-themselves; that is, entities determined by their intrinsic nature? How far are those disorders shaped by the very concepts physicians employ to define and classify them? To some, such questioning will seem madness itself, a recursive doubt about the validity of clinical observation, one that can only undermine the pragmatics of practice. To others,...
متن کاملThe social construction of mental illness
To what extent are mental disorders things-in-themselves; that is, entities determined by their intrinsic nature? How far are those disorders shaped by the very concepts physicians employ to define and classify them? To some, such questioning will seem madness itself, a recursive doubt about the validity of clinical observation, one that can only undermine the pragmatics of practice. To others,...
متن کاملThe social construction of mental illness
To what extent are mental disorders things-in-themselves; that is, entities determined by their intrinsic nature? How far are those disorders shaped by the very concepts physicians employ to define and classify them? To some, such questioning will seem madness itself, a recursive doubt about the validity of clinical observation, one that can only undermine the pragmatics of practice. To others,...
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is a collection of previously published articles by well-known contributors, edited by Professor Scheff. Articles by social scientists and psychiatrists illustrate various facets of the 'societal approach' to mental illness, which Scheff defines as the study of the community's reaction to mental illness. The study of societal reactions challenges medical concepts of mental illness and seems to ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1959
ISSN: 0035-9157
DOI: 10.1177/003591575905200415