Court-Ordered Insanity: Interpretive Practice and Involuntary Commitment (Social Problems and Social Issues (Walter Paperback))

Holstein

ISBN 10: 0202304493 / ISBN 13: 9780202304496

Published by Aldine Transaction, 1993

About this Item

Series: Social problems & social issues. Num Pages: 223 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: JKSN; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340. . 1993. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Court-Ordered Insanity: Interpretive Practice and Involuntary Commitment (Social Problems and Social Issues (Walter Paperback))
• Publisher: Aldine Transaction
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0202304493
• ISBN 13: 9780202304496
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book analyzes how hearing participants construct and organize arguments that are legally, psychiatrically, and practically accountable. It argues that commitment decisions orient to the "tenability" of situations that patients pose as alternatives to hospitalization.

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).