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Regulation And Policy In Mental Health

Perhaps no other area of health care invites the gaze of researchers in the social sciences and humanities as mental health does. For it is in the mental health field that the definitions—of identity, stigma, sickness, and well-being—perch uneasily between the etiology of disease and societal norms. The struggles over how we define mental health and design policies to provide compassionate and effective treatment are highlighted in the following papers.

The papers and Perspectives show how debates over policy and regulation have interacted and reemerged to shape policies, regulations, and definitions. In different ways they portray how complex and fragmented . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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