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Many Forms of Madness

A Family's Struggle with Mental Illness and the Mental Health System
  • ISBN-13: 9780800696511
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: AUGSBURG BOOKS
  • Translated by Rosemary Radford Ruether
  • Price: AUD $47.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 01/02/2010
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 140.00mm) 208 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Ethical issues & debates [JFM]
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In telling the story of her son's thirty-year struggle with schizophrenia, Rosemary Ruether lays bare the inhumane treatment throughout history of people with mental illness. Despite countless reforms by "idealistic reformers" and an enlightened understanding that mental illness is a physical disease like any other, conditions for people who struggle with mental illness are little improved. Ruether asks why this is so and then goes on to imagine what we would do for people with mental illness "if we really cared."
Rosemary Radford Ruether is Visiting Scholar at the Claremont Graduate University and School of Theology. She is the author of numerous influential works in feminist theology and the history of theology and the editor of many others. Her recent works with Fortress Press include the edited volume Feminist Theologies: Legacy and Prospect (2007) and Many Forms of Madness: A Family's Struggle with Mental Illness and the Mental Health System (2010).
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