Mental Health, Social Mirror

Mental Health, Social Mirror
Author: William R. Avison
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2007-08-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0387363203

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.