Dena T Smith

Gebundenes Buch

Medicine Over Mind

Mental Health Practice in the Biomedical Era

Beschreibung

Using interviews with forty-three practitioners in the New York City area, this book offers insight into how the medical model maintains its dominant role in mental health treatment. Smith explores how practitioners grapple with available treatment models, and make sense of a field that has shifted rapidly in just a few decades.

Autor

DENA T. SMITH is an assistant professor of sociology at The University of Maryland-Baltimore County where she teaches the sociology of mental health and illness, and medical sociology.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780813598673
• ISBN-10: 0813598672
• Artikelnr.: 56285350