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The work of inner-city emergency psychiatric units might best be described as "medicine under siege." Emptying Beds is the result of the author's two-year immersion in one such unit and its work. It is an account of the strategies developed by a staff of psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, and other mental health workers to deal with the dilemmas they face every day.
Price: $31.95
Pages: 199
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
Publication Date:
18 November 1995
ISBN: 9780520203518
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Lorna A. Rhodes is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Starkness Was Everywhere
2 We Discharge in Ten Days
3 The Game of Hot Shit
4 History Modifies Our Fantasies
5 Whatever Takes Less Writing
6 Like Migrating Birds
7 It Is Impossible To Be Good
Conclusion
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1 Starkness Was Everywhere
2 We Discharge in Ten Days
3 The Game of Hot Shit
4 History Modifies Our Fantasies
5 Whatever Takes Less Writing
6 Like Migrating Birds
7 It Is Impossible To Be Good
Conclusion
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index