Bedlam on the Streets (Paperback, New)

What happens when the mad are let out of the asylum and there is nowhere for them to go?
Bedlam on the Streets traces the terms on which the mad occupy the city's streets, homeless shelters, rooming houses, shopping malls and fast food joints. Caroline Knowles situates this social geography of madness within the broader parameters of systems of social welfare and globalization, arguing that the 'community mental health care' system is a system of neglect. A richly textured visual/spatial ethnography, this combines photographic images of people and places with an examination of city space and the voices of 'schizophrenics'. These provide harrowing testimony of the terrifying descent into madness in their stories of daily life marked by vulnerability and dangerousness.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2000
First published:	2001
Authors:	Caroline Knowles
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-23299-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
LSN:	0-415-23299-6
Barcode:	9780415232999

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