Court-Ordered Insanity: Interpretive Practice and Involuntary Commitment (Social Problems & Social Issues) - Hardcover

Holstein, James A.

 
9780202304489: Court-Ordered Insanity: Interpretive Practice and Involuntary Commitment (Social Problems & Social Issues)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0202304485 ISBN 13: 9780202304489
Publisher: Aldine Transaction, 1993

Synopsis

This book, about involuntary commitment proceedings, focuses on interpretive practice at the nexus of legal, psychiatric, and practical reasoning. It describes the interactional dynamics through which legally and psychiatrically warranted decisions are publicly argued, negotiated, and justified.

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About the Author

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).

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Publisher
Aldine Transaction
Publication date
1993
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0202304485
ISBN 13 
9780202304489
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
223

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