Mental Health Ontologies: How We Talk about Mental Health, and Why It Matters in the Digital Age

by Janna and Hastings

Book Overview

Mental health presents one of the defining public health challenges of our time. Proponents of different conceptions of what mental illness is wage war for the hearts and minds of patients, practitioners, policy-makers, and the public. Debate and fragmentation around the nature of the entities that feature in the mental health domain divide resources and reduce progress. The way mental health is publicly discussed in the media has tangible effects,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190581657X
• ISBN13: 9781905816576
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: University of Exeter Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"