Mental illness

Busfield, Joan

Mental illness - Cambridge Polity Press 2011 - xiii, 226 p. - Key concepts series .

Mental illness is a highly controversial and contested field, informed by the ideas and research of academics and practitioners working in psychiatry, psychology, pharmacology, sociology, genetics and the neurosciences. This book brings clarity to a complex field, exploring core issues ranging from debates about the way the concept has been developed, transformed and expanded over time, to controversies over its causes. (http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745649054)

9780745649061


Mental illness
Psychiatry

362.2 / B8M3

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