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The Political Economy of Mental Illness in South Africa (Hardcover)
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The Political Economy of Mental Illness in South Africa (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Health in Africa
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The book describes key socio-political reforms that helped shape
post-apartheid South Africa's mental health system. The author
interrogates how reforms shaped public, community-based services
for people living with severe mental illness, and how features of
this care has been determined, in part at least, by the relations
between actors and structures in the state, private for-profit
health care, and civil society spheres. A description of the
development of South Africa's post-apartheid health system, and the
contentions that emerge therein, sets the stage for an analysis of
the country's most tragic human rights failure during its
democratic period, namely the Life Esidimeni tragedy. The roots of
the tragedy are not only framed as a loss of life and dignity as a
result of political corruption and administrative mismanagement,
but as a power differential that ultimately highlights an unjust
system that relegates its most vulnerable citizens to commodities,
without voice and without agency. The book concludes that the
commodification of severe mental illness has been a product of
neoliberal discourses that have shaped the economistic ways in
which the post-apartheid South African state have governed poverty
and severe mental illness. This book will be of interest to
scholars of health, social and economic policy in South Africa.
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