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Space and time in the lives of people with long-standing mental illness: an ethnographic account.

This paper argues that uncommon use of time and space in a closed ward of a mental hospital is strongly related to culture, social dynamics and power relations. Space is differentiated and continuously re-embodied through awareness of and participation in events, interaction and forces. The time per...

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Published in:Anthropology & Medicine Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 89 - 104
Main Author: Van Dongen, Els
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr97
Subjects:
Spacetime
Ethnology
Culture
Time perspective
Social dynamics
People with intellectual disabilities
Psychiatric hospitals
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