Reading Mental Health Nursing
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It examines some of the ideology and professional issues surrounding the theory and practice of mental health nursing. The author supplies an analysis that goes beyond normal factual texts, drawing on a wide range of orthodox and unorthodox professional literature from several disciplines. Dr Clarke analyses five areas - race/ethnicity, education, ethics, research, and violence - in his...
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This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It examines some of the ideology and professional issues surrounding the theory and practice of mental health nursing. The author supplies an analysis that goes beyond normal factual texts, drawing on a wide range of orthodox and unorthodox professional literature from several disciplines. Dr Clarke analyses five areas - race/ethnicity, education, ethics, research, and violence - in his distinctive style. The results are enlightening and practitioners of all levels are challenged to review how they think about mental health practice.
Foreword Mark Radcliffe ixPreface xiiiIntroduction 1Section 1 A word about research and diaries 13Chapter 1 Research: vocation, profession: which? 15Chapter 2 Critiquing the gold standard in research: a personal view 23Chapter 3 Nursing research and the philosopher's stone 35Chapter 4 On the literary character of qualitative designs: using diaries in psychiatric research 47Section 2 Can there be a nursing ethics? 61Chapter 5 The rights of the case: the Rosie Purves story 63Chapter 6 Outrageous protocol: on the question of control and restraint 77Chapter 7 Responding to a confused patient: what would Aristotle have done? 89Chapter 8 Legal mischief 103Section 3 Ethnicity, race and the paddies 115Chapter 9 Diaspora: a way of thinking about mental distress in migrants 117Chapter 10 Constructing mental illness in Irish people: race, culture and retreat 123Chapter 11 Curiosity, fact and myth: the Irish in Britain today 139Chapter 12 So you think you're funny? 151Section 4 Education, education, education 163Chapter 13 A wholly different activity 165Chapter 14 Why is he taking the Mickey? 175Chapter 15 Putting students (and the subject) first 183Chapter 16 Nurses and higher education 193Chapter 17 Role, responsibilty and the structuring of mental health nursing students 203Section 5 Drugs, euphemisms and cyborgs 213Chapter 18 You say you want a revolution 215Chapter 19 Euphemistically challenged 227Chapter 20 Virtual insanity: imag(in)ing illness in brain scans of schizophrenic people 241Conclusion 257Index 259
