Critical perspectives in forensic care : inside out
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Critical perspectives in forensic care : inside out
Macmillan, 1998
- : hardcover
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
A full and challenging examination of the practice and contextual issues relating to nursing in secure units - whether within special hospitals, the prison service or more general hospitals. Historical and philosophical issues are explored, then more practical aspects are discussed.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: the Silent Scream
- T.Mason & D.Mercer.- From Devilry to Diagnosis: the Painful Birth of Forensic Psychiatry
- D.Mercer & T.Mason.- Beyond Madness and Badness: Where Angels Fear to Tread?
- D.Mercer.- Control in the Community
- G.McCann.- Violence, Fear and Power
- R.Whittington.- Seclusion: a Catacomb of Control
- T.Mason & M.Chandley.- More than a Pound of Flesh: a Patient's Perspective
- S.George.- The Nature of the Beast: Sex Offender Treatment
- D.Mercer.- Rehabilitation: 'The Ship of Fools'?
- T.Mason & D.Mercer.- The Ceremonial and Moral Order of a Ward for Psychopaths
- J.Richman.- Therapy vs Security: Reconciling Healing and Damnation
- S.Burrow.- Language, Race and Forensic Psychiatry: Some Dilemmas for Anti-discriminatory Practice
- M.McKeown & M.Stowell-Smith.- Fallen from Grace: Women, Power and Knowledge
- M.McKeown & D.Mercer.- Doctors' Orders: The Mentally Disordered in Prison
- J.Senior.- Nurse Education: Scribes and Scriptures
- G.Carton.
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