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"What explains differences in how affluent democracies have deinstitutionalized mental health care? This book highlights how labor-organizing among welfare workers contributes to the success, or failure, of mental health care systems. The book provides insights for scholars, health and medical practitioners, activists, and trade union strategists"--
List of contents
1. The welfare workforce: managers and workers make strange bedfellows; 2. Nowhere to go? The supply of mental health services across countries; 3. Before deinstitutionalization: the United States and France compared; 4. Deinstitutionalization in the United States; 5. Deinstitutionalization in France; 6. Deinstitutionalization elsewhere: a Scandinavian check; 7. Beyond deinstitutionalization: welfare workers and welfare capitalism; Postscript: the evolving definition of the 'welfare workforce'; Appendix. Comparative deinstitutionalization data set: codebook and source information.
About the author
Isabel M. Perera is an assistant professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University. Perera has held visiting appointments at the European University Institute, University of Gothenburg, University of Oxford, and Sciences Po Paris. This book is based on her award-winning dissertation in political science from the University of Pennsylvania. Her academic training also includes a postdoctoral fellowship in health policy and medical ethics.
Summary
What explains differences in how affluent democracies have deinstitutionalized mental health care? This book highlights how labor-organizing among welfare workers contributes to the success, or failure, of mental health care systems. The book provides insights for scholars, health and medical practitioners, activists, and trade union strategists.
Foreword
Examines how labor-organizing among welfare workers has contributed to the success, or failure, of mental health care systems.
