Making the subjects of mental health care: a cross‐cultural comparison of mental health policy in Hong Kong, China and New South Wales, Australia.
Constituting 'social problems' in particular ways has a range of effects, including for how subjects are positioned within policy and discourse. Employing an approach grounded in poststructuralist and social constructionist thinking, this analysis interrogates how the subjects of mental health care...
| Publicado en: | Sociology of Health & Illness Vol. 41; no. 4; pp. 740 - 755 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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