Mental Health, Social Mirror

Mental Health, Social Mirror

Author: William R. Avison

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-08-19

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 0387363203

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Sociologists often view research on mental health as peripheral to the real work of the discipline. This volume contains essays that reassert the importance of mental health research in sociology. Experts in the field articulate the contributions that mental health research has made, and can make, in resolving key theoretical and empirical debates. The contributions provide answers to critical questions regarding the social origins of--and social responses to--mental illness.