50 Years After Deinstitutionalization

This volume will examine deinstitutionalization's legacies approximately 50 years after reintegration began. It will highlight pressing issues around mental health treatment, social and health policy, and the lived experiences of those coping with mental illness that were or continue to be significantly influenced by deinstitutionalization reforms.

About the author

Edited by Brea L. Perry, Department of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

Summary

This volume will examine deinstitutionalization's legacies approximately 50 years after reintegration began. It will highlight pressing issues around mental health treatment, social and health policy, and the lived experiences of those coping with mental illness that were or continue to be significantly influenced by deinstitutionalization reforms.

Product details

• Assisted by: Brea L. Perry (Editor)
• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9781785604034
• ISBN: 978-1-78560-403-4
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 650 g
• Series: Advances in Medical Sociology; Advances in Medical Sociology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system