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The sociology of mental health and illness / Allen Furr

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, [2023]Description: xv, 431 pages : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781071815533
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.8914
Contents:
Introduction to the sociology of mental illness
Mental illness in history
Sociology's theories of mental illness
Prevalence and costs of mental illness
Social class and mental illness
Race and ethnicity
Mental health over the life course
Communities and organizations
Social problems and disasters
The career of mental health patients
The medicalization of social and psychological problems
International mental health
Mental health policy and the law
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-416) and index.

Introduction to the sociology of mental illness

Mental illness in history

Sociology's theories of mental illness

Prevalence and costs of mental illness

Social class and mental illness

Race and ethnicity

Mental health over the life course

Communities and organizations

Social problems and disasters

The career of mental health patients

The medicalization of social and psychological problems

International mental health

Mental health policy and the law

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