The Clozapine Clinic: Health Agency in High-Risk Conditions

by Julia Brown

This book is the first ethnography of the little-known world of clozapine clinics in Australia and the United Kingdom. Anthropologist Julia Brown engages with the narratives of people living in extreme health circumstances to challenge some of the assumptions made about clozapine treatment and to explore what it means to be diagnosed with 'treatment-resistant schizophrenia.'

Clozapine is a gold standard but controversial treatment for psychosis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367862727
• ISBN13: 9780367862725
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"