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...
| Publicado en: | Anthropology & Medicine Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 89 - 104 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr97
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