Court-Ordered Insanity
Interpretive Practice and Involuntary Commitment
This book, about involuntary commitment proceedings, focuses on interpretive practice at the nexus of legal, psychiatric, and practical reasoning. It describes the interactional dynamics through which legally and psychiatrically warranted decisions are publicly argued, negotiated, and justified. Les mer
This book, about involuntary commitment proceedings, focuses on interpretive practice at the nexus of legal, psychiatric, and practical reasoning. It describes the interactional dynamics through which legally and psychiatrically warranted decisions are publicly argued, negotiated, and justified.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- AldineTransaction
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 223
- ISBN
- 9780202304489
- Utgivelsesår
- 1993
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Om forfatteren
James A. Holstein is professor in and chair of the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University. He is the editor of Social Problems. He has published over three-dozen books on topics such as the family, metal health and illness, social problems, the self, and quantitative research methods.