Lay knowledge about madness and mental illness
The way in wich societies relate to madness is in accordance with dominant concepts about the world (Benedict, 1934; Devereux, 1970). Modern rationality has created mental illness as an ‘object’ controlled by medicine (Foucault, 1987).The concepts, attitudes and practices associated with mental illn...
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| Format: | conferenceObject |
| Language: | eng |
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2020
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/9221 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorioaberto.uab.pt:10400.2/9221 |