The Psychiatric Team and the Social Definition of Schizophrenia/ an anthropological study of person and illness Barrett,Robert J. - 1 - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. - 337

Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements;
1. Schizophrenia in context;
2. Time and space in a progressive psychiatric hospital;
3. Professional domains and the dimensions of a case;
4. Clinical teams and the 'whole person';
5. Documenting a case: the written construction of schizophrenia;
6. Moral trajectories: from acute psychosis to 'chronic schizophrenic'; 7. Historical formulations of schizophrenia: degeneration and disintegration;
8. Contemporary formulations of schizophrenia: explaining the inexplicable;
9. Schizophrenia for practical purposes;
10. The person, the case, and schizophrenia; References; Index.

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