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Critical Perspectives in Forensic Care

Inside Out

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Tom Mason
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  2. Dave Mercer

    1. Forensic Practice Development Centre, Ashworth Hospital, UK
      Diploma in Forensic Care and Management, UK

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  • A timely exploration of care within secure units particularly appropriate given recent spotlight on special hospitals
    Approach is both authoritative and challenging text should make readers think

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: The Silent Scream

    • Tom Mason, Dave Mercer
    Pages 1-8

  3. From Devilry to Diagnosis: The Painful Birth of Forensic Psychiatry

    • Dave Mercer, Tom Mason
    Pages 9-30

  4. Beyond Madness and Badness: Where Angels Fear to Tread?

    • Dave Mercer
    Pages 31-46

  5. Control in the Community

    • Ged McCann
    Pages 47-63

  6. Violence: Fear and Power

    • Richard Whittington, David Balsamo
    Pages 64-84

  7. Seclusion: A Catacomb of Control

    • Tom Mason, Mark Chandley
    Pages 85-101

  8. More Than a Pound of Flesh: A Patient’s Perspective

    • Steven George
    Pages 102-107

  9. The Nature of the Beast: Sex Offender Treatment

    • Dave Mercer
    Pages 108-128

  10. Rehabilitation: ‘The Ship of Fools’?

    • Tom Mason, Dave Mercer
    Pages 129-145

  11. The Ceremonial and Moral Order of a Ward for Psychopaths

    • Joel Richman
    Pages 146-170

  12. Therapy Versus Security: Reconciling Healing and Damnation

    • Steve Burrow
    Pages 171-187

  13. Language, Race and Forensic Psychiatry: Some Dilemmas for Anti-Discriminatory Practice

    • Mick McKeown, Mark Stowell-Smith
    Pages 188-208

  14. Fallen from Grace: Women, Power and Knowledge

    • Mick McKeown, Dave Mercer
    Pages 209-229

  15. Doctors’ Orders: The Mentally Disordered in Prison

    • Jane Senior
    Pages 230-243

  16. Nurse Education: Scribes and Scriptures

    • Gerry Carton
    Pages 244-255

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 257-259
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About this book

A full and challenging examination of the practice and contextual issues relating to nursing in secure units - whether within special hospitals, the prison service or more general hospitals. Historical and philosophical issues are explored, then more practical aspects are discussed.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Forensic Practice Development Centre, Ashworth Hospital, UK

    Dave Mercer

  • Diploma in Forensic Care and Management, UK

    Dave Mercer

About the editors

TOM MASON is Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatric Nursing/Research at the University of Liverpool and Ashworth Hospital.

DAVE MERCER is Lecturer-Practitioner in the Forensic Practice Development Centre at Ashworth Hospital where he is Course Director for the Diploma in Forensic Care and Management.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Critical Perspectives in Forensic Care

  • Book Subtitle: Inside Out

  • Editors: Tom Mason, Dave Mercer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26104-8

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press London

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1998

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 280

  • Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave

  • Topics: Psychiatry

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