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  • Conservatorship

    Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness

    Winner, 2024 Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award, Medical Sociology Section, American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention, 2025 Best Book Award, Sociology of Mental Health Section, American Sociological AssociationIs involuntary psychiatric treatment the solution to the intertwined crises of untreated mental illness, homelessness, and addiction? In recent years, politicians and ... Leer más

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  • Mental States

    Ordering Psychiatric Disorder in France

    How do states decide who is or is not mentally ill? Alex V. Barnard shows that, beneath the chaotic trajectories of people with mental illness and the fragmented agencies and professionals serving them, there is an underlying order to the ways societies classify, treat, and control madness.Based on more than a year of in-depth fieldwork in France, Mental States takes readers to a public mental ... Leer más

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    Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness

    Winner, 2024 Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award, Medical Sociology Section, American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention, 2025 Best Book Award, Sociology of Mental Health Section, American Sociological AssociationIs involuntary psychiatric treatment the solution to the intertwined crises of untreated mental illness, homelessness, and addiction? In recent years, politicians and ... Leer más

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  • Freegans

    Diving into the Wealth of Food Waste in America

    If capitalism is such an efficient system, why does 40 percent of all U.S. food production go to waste—while one in six people in the nation face hunger? This startling truth has stirred increasing interest and action of late, but none so radical as that of the freegans, who live on what capitalism throws away—including food culled from supermarket dumpsters. Freegans is a close look at the people ... Leer más

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  • The Weariness of the Self

    Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age

    Depression, once a subfield of neurosis, has become the most diagnosed mental disorder in the world. Why and how has depression become such a topical illness and what does it tell us about changing ideas of the individual and society? Alain Ehrenberg investigates the history of depression and depressive symptoms across twentieth-century psychiatry, showing that identifying depression is far more ... Leer más

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  • Sociological Perspectives on Substance Use and College Life

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    This book is specifically designed to be used in a variety of my sociology courses, including Introduction to Sociology and Social Problems. It is an example of a sociological monograph, a detailed written study on a specialized scholarly subject and will illustrate how original sociological research is conducted, analyzed, and written.Throughout this text, we will examine a wide variety of ... Leer más

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  • Victimology

    A Canadian Perspective

    Victimology is a relatively new and emerging interdisciplinary area that crosses the fields of criminology, law, sociology, and justice. Written by one of the world’s leading experts on victimology, this book is designed to offer a broad introduction to the subject. Unlike other texts that are organized around different types of victimization, this book is informed by a victim-centred approach ... Leer más

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  • The Behavioral Code

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  • Disalienation

    Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France

    From 1940 to 1945, forty thousand patients died in French psychiatric hospitals. The Vichy regime's "soft extermination" let patients die of cold, starvation, or lack of care. But in Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole, a small village in central France, one psychiatric hospital attempted to resist. Hoarding food with the help of the local population, the staff not only worked to keep patients alive but ... Leer más

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  • Undoing Drugs

    How Harm Reduction Is Changing the Future of Drugs and Addiction

    From “one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere” (Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author)—the untold story of harm reduction, a surprisingly simple idea with enormous powerDrug overdoses now kill more Americans annually than guns, cars or breast cancer. But we have tried to solve this national crisis with policies that only made matters worse. In the name of “sending ... Leer más

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  • Vulnerable

    The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19

    The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease known as COVID-19, has infected people in 212 countries so far and on every continent except Antarctica.Vast changes to our home lives, social interactions, government functioning and relations between countries have swept the world in a few months and are difficult to hold in one’s mind at one time. That is why a collaborative effort such ... Leer más

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