Recovery's edge : an ethnography of mental health care and moral agency

The Resource Recovery's edge : an ethnography of mental health care and moral agency
Label
Recovery's edge : an ethnography of mental health care and moral agency
Title remainder
an ethnography of mental health care and moral agency
Statement of responsibility
Neely Laurenzo Myers
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
In 2003 the Bush Administration's New Freedom Commission asked mental health service providers to begin promoting "recovery" rather than churning out long-term, "chronic" mental health service users. Recovery's Edge sends us to urban America to view the inner workings of a mental health clinic run, in part, by people who are themselves "in recovery" from mental illness. In this provocative narrative, Neely Myers sweeps us up in her own journey through three years of ethnographic research at this unusual site, providing a nuanced account of different approaches to mental health care. Recovery's Edge critically examines the high bar we set for people in recovery through intimate stories of people struggling to find meaningful work, satisfying relationships, and independent living. This book is a recipient of the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the best book in the area of medicine
Member of
Cataloging source
Midwest
Dewey number
362.2/2
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Target audience
adult

Context

Context of Recovery's edge : an ethnography of mental health care and moral agency

Work of

Zepheira Logo
Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.