Emptying Beds - The Work of an Emergency Psychiatric Unit

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List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1 Starkness Was Everywhere
2 We Discharge in Ten Days
3 The Game of Hot Shit
4 History Modifies Our Fantasies
5 Whatever Takes Less Writing
6 Like Migrating Birds
7 It Is Impossible To Be Good

Conclusion
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Lorna A. Rhodes is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington.

Summary

The work of inner-city emergency psychiatric units might best be described as 'medicine under siege'. This title is based on the author's two-year immersion in one such unit and its work.

Product details

• Authors: Lorna A. Rhodes, Rhodes Lorna A.
• Assisted by: Lorna A. Rhodes (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.11.1995
• EAN: 9780520203518
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20351-8
• No. of pages: 199
• Series: Comparative Studies of Health; Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; USA, MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Mental Health, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, Mental health services, United States of America, USA, Public health & preventive medicine, Public health and preventive medicine