Court-Ordered Insanity: Interpretive Practice and Involuntary Commitment (Social problems & social issues)

James A. Holstein

ISBN 10: 0202304485 / ISBN 13: 9780202304489

Published by Aldine Transaction 1993-12-31, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Court-Ordered Insanity: Interpretive Practice and Involuntary Commitment (Social problems & social issues)
• Publisher: Aldine Transaction 1993-12-31
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0202304485
• ISBN 13: 9780202304489
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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).