Inequity And Madness

Author : José Guimón
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461506737

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Inequity and Madness by José Guimón Pdf

Two ofthe most important notions concerning the rights of people with mental illness are among the most neglected: the first is that human rights and duties are complementary and that both must be considered in constructing a framework for mental health care. The second is that we must strive for equity and not only for equality in developing mental health programs. The first ofthese notions is complex. It refers to the duties ofpeople with mental illness and to the duties ofthose who surround them. Mental illness does not liberate the person who has it from civic obligations. The most basic ofthese is to give support to others and to refuse to harm them Their carers, society and the patient's self-respect all gain through their recognition, even though the fulfilment of these obligations might be difficult or impossible in certain periods ofillness. The duty of those surrounding the patients is to recognise and respect their existence and to make the necessary arrangements to respond to their needs, protect their rights and compensate for their temporary or permanent inability to fulfil their civic duties. A society's social capital is the public good that results from the mutual supportofmembers ofa society: iffor one reason or another, some or all members ofa society fail to offer such support the social capital will diminish and the society will cease to be civic.

Author : Andrea Daley,Merrick D. Pilling
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030836924

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Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives of Madness by Andrea Daley,Merrick D. Pilling Pdf

This book challenges the perception of the psychiatric chart as a neutral and objective text. The chapters included in this book coalesce to reveal the psychiatric chart as a text that is, in fact, “storied” by institutional ideology that reflects, reinforces, reinterprets, and, at times, resists gendered, raced, sexualized, and classed norms, values, and presuppositions. Intersectional analysis highlights the nuanced ways in which dominant ideologies are activated in chart documentation to produce qualitatively specific psychiatric narratives of distress and related responses in the psychiatric institution. The book serves as a much-needed resource for mental health professionals, education and training programs, and researchers that meaningfully takes into account the social and structural materiality of people’s lives and its impact on experiences of distress. It will also appeal to scholars investigating equity in health care across the fields of Critical Psychology, Disability Studies, Social Work, Allied Health, Mad Studies and Social Justice.

Author : John Ferguson Nisbet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Creative ability
ISBN : UOM:39015076904138

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The Insanity of Genius and the General Inequality of Human Faculty by John Ferguson Nisbet Pdf

Author : John Ferguson Nisbet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Genius
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030010948257

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The Insanity of Genius and the General Inequality of Human Faculty Physiologically Considered by John Ferguson Nisbet Pdf

Author : Spandler, Helen,Anderson, Jill,Bob Sapey
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447314578

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Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement by Spandler, Helen,Anderson, Jill,Bob Sapey Pdf

An exploration of the relationship between madness, distress and disability, bringing together leading scholars and activists from Europe, North America, Australia and India.

Author : Peter Morrall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317444121

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Madness by Peter Morrall Pdf

This book is an introduction to the uncertainties and incongruities about madness. It is aimed at all of those who are curious about this subject whether out of general inquisitiveness or because it is part of a formal course of study. Using case studies of real people in order to explain, humanise, and bring to life the subject, Peter Morrall critically analyses how madness has been and is understood, or perhaps misunderstood. By contrasting past and present people who have been perceived as mad and/or perceive themselves as mad, Morrall presents core ideas about madness and critiques their would-be robustness in explaining the specific madness of the person in question, as well as their general relevance to madness overall. Unlike many of its contemporaries, the book does not adhere to a perspective, but rather remains skeptical about the ideas of all who profess to understand madness, whether these emanate from sociology, psychology, psychotherapy, anthropology, ‘anti’ psychiatry, or the biological sciences of contemporary ‘scientific-psychiatry’. This book will inform and stimulate the thinking of the reader, and challenge those with preconceived ideas about madness.

Author : Joel Gold,Ian Gold
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781439181560

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Suspicious Minds by Joel Gold,Ian Gold Pdf

Combines true case stories with the latest research in a tour of the delusion-afflicted human mind to explore how it reflects neuroscience, biology and culture, tracing the sources of paranoia and psychosis to faulty interactions between the brain and the social world. 35,000 first printing.

Author : Liah Greenfeld
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674074408

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Mind, Modernity, Madness by Liah Greenfeld Pdf

A leading interpreter of modernity argues that our culture of limitless self-fulfillment is making millions mentally ill. Training her analytic eye on manic depression and schizophrenia, Liah Greenfeld, in the culminating volume of her trilogy on nationalism, traces these dysfunctions to society’s overburdening demands for self-realization.

Author : Brenda A. LeFrançois,Robert Menzies,Geoffrey Reaume
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Mental illness
ISBN : 9781551305349

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Mad Matters by Brenda A. LeFrançois,Robert Menzies,Geoffrey Reaume Pdf

In 1981, Toronto activist Mel Starkman wrote: "An important new movement is sweeping through the western world.... The 'mad, ' the oppressed, the ex-inmates of society's asylums are coming together and speaking for themselves." Mad Matters is the first Canadian book to bring together the writings of this vital movement, which has grown explosively in the years since. With contributions from scholars in numerous disciplines, as well as activists and psychiatric survivors, it presents diverse critical voices that convey the lived experiences of the psychiatrized and challenges dominant understandings of "mental illness." The connections between mad activism and other liberation struggles are stressed throughout, making the book a major contribution to the literature on human rights and anti-oppression.

Author : Dorling, Danny
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447349082

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Peak Inequality by Dorling, Danny Pdf

Inequality is the key political issue of our time. Danny Dorling wrote his seminal work Injustice: Why social inequality persists in 2010, and as an early proponent of rapidly reducing economic inequalities, he is now much sought-after as one of the foremost contributors to the debates surrounding it. Here Dorling brings together brand new material alongside a carefully curated selection of his most recent writing on inequality from publications as wide ranging as the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, New Statesman, Financial Times and the China People’s Daily. Covering key inequality issues including politics, housing, education and health, he explores whether we have now reached ‘peak inequality’. He concludes, crucially, by predicting what the future holds for Britain, as attempts are made to defuse the ticking time bomb while we simultaneously try to negotiate Brexit and react to the wider international situation of a world of people demanding to become more equal.

Author : Danny Dorling
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788736473

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Inequality and the 1% by Danny Dorling Pdf

Since the great recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap between the haves and the have-nots has turned into a chasm. While the rich have found new ways of protecting their wealth, everyone else has suffered the penalties of austerity. But inequality is more than just economics. Being born outside the 1% has a dramatic impact on a person's potential: reducing life expectancy, limiting education and work prospects, and even affecting mental health. What is to be done? In Inequality and the 1% leading social thinker Danny Dorling lays bare the extent and true cost of the division in our society and asks what have the superrich ever done for us. He shows that inquality is the greatest threat we face and why we must urgently redress the balance.

Author : Judith Warner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1594481709

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Perfect Madness by Judith Warner Pdf

A lively and provocative look at the modern culture of motherhood and at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped current ideas about parenting What is wrong with this picture? That's the question Judith Warner asks in this national bestseller after taking a good, hard look at the world of modern parenting--at anxious women at work and at home and in bed with unhappy husbands. When Warner had her first child, she was living in Paris, where parents routinely left their children home, with state-subsidized nannies, to join friends in the evening for dinner or to go on dates with their husbands. When she returned to the States, she was stunned by the cultural differences she found toward how people think about effective parenting--in particular, assumptions about motherhood. None of the mothers she met seemed happy; instead, they worried about the possibility of not having the perfect child, panicking as each developmental benchmark approached. Combining close readings of mainstream magazines, TV shows, and pop culture with a thorough command of dominant ideas in recent psychological, social, and economic theory, Perfect Madness addresses our cultural assumptions, and examines the forces that have shaped them. Working in the tradition of classics like Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism, and with an awareness of a readership that turned recent hits like The Bitch in the House and Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It into bestsellers, Warner offers a context in which to understand parenting culture and the way we live, as well as ways of imagining alternatives--actual concrete changes--that might better our lives.

Author : Benjamin Spagnolo,Joe Sampson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509938964

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Principle and Pragmatism in Roman Law by Benjamin Spagnolo,Joe Sampson Pdf

This edited collection presents an interesting and original series of essays on the roles of principle and pragmatism in Roman private law. The book traverses key areas of Roman law to examine the explanatory power of - and delineate interactions between - abstract, doctrinal principle, and pragmatic, real-world problem-solving. Essays canvassing sources of law, property, succession, contracts and delicts sketch the varied roles of theoretical narratives - whether internal to Roman doctrine or derived from external influence - and of practical, policy-based solutions in the jurists' thought. Principled reasoning in Roman juristic argument ranges from safeguarding commerce, to the priority of acts or intentions in property transactions, to notions of pietas, to Platonic conceptions of the market. Pragmatism is discernible in myriad ways, from divergence between form and substance, to extension of legal rules for economic, social or political utility, to emphasis on what parties did rather than what they said. The distinctive contribution of the book is its survey of different manifestations of principle and pragmatism across Roman private law. The essays - by eminent as well as emerging academics - will stimulate debate about the roles principle and pragmatism play in juristic argument, and will be of interest to both scholars and students of Roman law.

Author : David E. Newton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216088912

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Gender Inequality by David E. Newton Pdf

Gender Inequality: A Reference Handbook discusses the role women have played throughout human history and play in the modern day, including both advances that have been made in the fight for equality and problems remaining to be solved. Gender Inequality: A Reference Handbook is divided into two parts. Chapters One and Two provide a historical background to the topic and a review of current issues and problems. The remaining chapters aid readers in continuing their own research on the topic, through an extended annotated bibliography, chronology, glossary, noteworthy individuals and organizations in the field, and important data and documents. This book covers the topic of gender inequality from the earliest pages of human history to the present day. It differs from other works in the field primarily because of the variety of resources provided, such as further reading, perspective essays on the topic, a historical timeline, and useful terms in the field. It is intended for readers of high school through the community college level, along with adult readers who may be interested in the topic.

Author : Peter Beresford,Jasna Russo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429878640

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The Routledge International Handbook of Mad Studies by Peter Beresford,Jasna Russo Pdf

By drawing broadly on international thinking and experience, this book offers a critical exploration of Mad Studies and advances its theory and practice. Comprised of 34 chapters written by international leading experts, activists and academics, this handbook introduces and advances Mad Studies, as well as exploring resistance and criticism, and clarifying its history, ideas, what it is, and what it can offer. It presents examples of mad studies in action, covering initiatives that have been taken, their achievements and what can be learned from them. In addition to sharing research findings and evidence, the book offers examples and insights for advancing understandings of experiences of madness and distress from the perspectives of those who have (had) those experiences, and also explores ways of supporting people oppressed by conventional understandings and systems. This book will be of interest to all scholars and students of Mad Studies, disability studies, sociology, socio- legal studies, mental health and medicine more generally.