Court-Ordered Insanity: Interpretive Practice and Involuntary Commitment

ISBN-13: 9780202304496 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 223 str.

James A. Holstein

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Interpretive Practice and Involuntary Commitment 2. Analyzing Involuntary Commitment 3. Decision-Making in Context: Outlook and Orientations 4. The Sequential Organization of Commitment Hearings 5. The Conversational Organization of Competence and Incompetence 6. Troubles, Tenability, and the Placement of Insanity 7. Mental Illness Assumptions 8. Constructing Tenability: Interpretive Practice in Cultural Context 9. "Action That Divides"

O autorze

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).