Emptying Beds: The Work of an Emergency Psychiatric Unit

Emptying Beds: The Work of an Emergency Psychiatric Unit
ISBN-10
0520203518
ISBN-13
9780520203518
Category
Social Science
Pages
199
Language
English
Published
1995-11-18
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Lorna A. Rhodes

Description

The work of inner-city emergency psychiatric units might best be described as "medicine under siege." Emptying Beds is the result of the author's two-year immersion in one such unit and its work. It is an account of the strategies developed by a staff of psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, and other mental health workers to deal with the dilemmas they face every day.

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