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This chapter identifies psychiatry as a particular problematic and all-encompassing regime of ruling, and as such, a regime ready-made for institutional ethnography (IE) investigation. The nature of IE as an approach is clarified—both what is called “IE for understanding” and “IE for social change.” Correspondingly, the reader is introduced to a multifaceted project that includes training, research, and capacity-building. The chapter ends with an invitation for psychiatry to be placed once again at the center of the institutional ethnography agenda.
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Burstow, B. (2016). Introduction to the Project: IE Researchers Take on Psychiatry. In: Burstow, B. (eds) Psychiatry Interrogated. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41174-3_1
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