Gender and mental health /
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| Author / Creator: | Prior, Pauline. |
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| Imprint: | New York : New York University Press, 1999. |
| Description: | x, 198 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3967364 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- Why write another book on gender and mental health?
- New knowledge
- Summary of contents
- Part I. Mental Disorder
- 2. Defining Mental Disorder
- Legal definitions
- Medical definitions
- Alternative perspectives
- Culture and mental disorder
- 3. The Population at Risk
- Gender and prevalence
- Mental disorders associated with women
- Mental disorders associated with men
- Finding the population at risk
- 4. Approaches to Treatment
- Different perspectives
- Hospital care
- Community care
- Therapies within mainstream psychiatry
- Non-medical approaches
- 5. Gender and Normality
- Feminism
- The male perspective
- Sexuality
- Psychiatry and the gender debates
- Part II. Mental Health Policy
- 6. Defining Mental Health Policy
- A conceptual framework
- Modelling the policy system
- Analysing policy processes
- Understanding decision-making
- The impact of ideologies
- Changing trends in health policy
- 7. Mental Health Services
- Recent trends
- Current services in Europe
- Current services in the USA
- Gender and the use of services
- 8. The Law and Mental Disorder
- The scope of mental health law
- Mental health law in Europe
- Mental health law in the USA
- A gendered impact?
- 9. Crime and Mental Disorder
- Is there a link?
- Gender and crime
- Services for offenders with mental disorders
- Inside 'special hospitals'
- 10. A Final Word
- Bibliography
- Name Index
- Subject Index
