The Deviant Imagination

Psychiatry, Social Work and Social Change

  • Geoffrey Pearson
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xii
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  2. The Smell of Theory

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: Traditional Images of the Misfit
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      Pages 3-14
    3. Medicine De-Frocked
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      Pages 15-48
    4. The Misfit Sociologies: Scholarship, Commitment and Deviance-Control
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      Pages 49-78
    5. ‘The Great Refusal’: The Personal and the Political
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      Pages 79-120

  3. The Ideology of Welfare

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 121-125
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    2. The Ambiguous Politics of Social Work
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      Pages 126-142
    3. The Historical Object of Deviance: King Mob
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      Pages 143-176
    4. Sociological Pastoral
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      Pages 177-201
    5. Conclusion: Scientific, Moral and Political Discourse
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      Pages 202-209
  4. Back Matter
    Pages 211-258
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About this book

Keywords

psychiatry social change social work work

Authors and affiliations

  • Geoffrey Pearson
    • 1
  1. 1.University CollegeCardiffUK

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