‘This weather always gets me down’: A psychosocial perspective on mental illness
| Autor: | Nicole Baur |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
050402 sociology
Health (social science) Mental Disorders 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) Criminology Social issues Mental illness medicine.disease Social constructionism Mental health 0506 political science Mental Health 0504 sociology Pretext Sunlight 050602 political science & public administration medicine Humans Narrative Sociology Weather Psychosocial |
| Zdroj: | Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. 23:180-196 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7196 1363-4593 |
| Popis: | Since antiquity, attempts to conceptualise the aetiology of mental illness have included social constructionist, biomedical, and psychosocial theories. The change of these concepts over the centuries is reflected in therapeutic approaches as well as the location, layout and interior design of psychiatric institutions. This article focuses on the genealogy of one of these concepts – the proposed link between meteorological parameters, specifically air and sun, and mental illness. Based on detailed archival materials, including administrative records, medical notes and correspondence as well as oral histories, relating to the Devon County Mental Hospital near Exeter (UK), it traces this link over time within and beyond the medical community to the extent that it served as pretext for underlying social causes of the illness. In doing so, this article makes an empirical contribution to geographical perspectives on the construction of psychiatric institutions throughout history while also advancing such work in theoretical terms by drawing attention to the shifts in medical and lay conceptualisations of mental illness. |
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