Vital Accounts

Vital Accounts
Author: Andrea A. Rusnock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2002-09-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521803748

Rusnock shows how vital accounts became the measure of public health and welfare.

Feminism and a Vital Politics of Depression and Recovery

Feminism and a Vital Politics of Depression and Recovery
Author: Simone Fullagar
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2019-08-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030116263

Drawing upon insights from feminist new materialism the book traces the complex material-discursive processes through which women’s recovery from depression is enacted within a gendered biopolitics. Within the biomedical assemblage that connects mental health policy, service provision, research and everyday life, the gendered context of recovery remains little understood despite the recurrence and pervasiveness of depression. Rather than reducing experience to discrete biological, psychological or sociological categories, feminist thinking moves with the biopsychosocialities implicated in both distress and lively modes of becoming well. Using a post-qualitative approach, the book creatively re-presents how women ‘do’ recovery within and beyond the normalising imperatives of biomedical and psychotherapeutic practices. By pursuing the affective movement of self through depression this inquiry goes beyond individualised models to explore the enactment of multiple self-world relations. Reconfiguring depression and recovery as bodymind matters opens up a relational ontology concerned with the entanglement of gender inequities and mental (ill) health.

System

System
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Publisher:
Total Pages: 706
Release: 1906
Genre: Business
ISBN:

Accounting, Accountants and Accountability

Accounting, Accountants and Accountability
Author: Norman Macintosh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2008-01-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134466722

In the business world, recent years have seen a growing acknowledgement of the value of intangible assets rather than physical assets. This has precipitated a crisis in the accounting industry: the accounting representations relied upon for years can no longer be taken for granted. Here, Norman Macintosh argues that we now need to understand accounting in a different manner. Offering several different ways of looking at accounting and accountants, he draws upon the work of eminent thinkers such as Barthes, Baudrillard, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard and Bahktin. In doing this, he develops revolutionary insights into the nature of accounting, pioneering the introduction of contemporary poststructuralist ideas into accounting theory and practice. With a wide range of examples and case studies, this revolutionary new work will be essential reading for academic and professional accountants along with all those with an interest in the future of accounting.