Court-Ordered Insanity: Interpretive Practice and Involuntary Commitment - Rilegato

Holstein, James A.

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ISBN 10: 0202304485 ISBN 13: 9780202304489

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1993

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

James A. Holstein is Associate Professor of Sodology, Marquette University. His research brings an ethnomethodologically-informed constructionist perspective to a variety of topics, including mental illness, sodal problems, family, the life course, and dispute processing. Dr. Holstein is coeditor of the research annual, Perspectives on Social Problems, and coauthor (with J. Gubrium) of What Is Family? and Constructing the Life Course. In addition, he is coeditor (with Gale Miller) of Reconsidering Social Constructionism and Constructionist Controversies (both: Aldine de Gruyter, New York).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0202304485
• ISBN 13: 9780202304489
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 223
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile