Medicalizing homelessness: The production of self-blame and self-governing within homeless shelters

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 328-345

  Lyon Callo, Vincent ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Homeless shelters; Homelessness; Political economy; Subjectivities

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE MANAGEMENT; CASE REPORT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HOMELESSNESS; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; PATIENT CARE; POLICY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOCIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CASE MANAGEMENT; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; HOMELESS PERSONS; HOUSING; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PUBLIC POLICY; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 0034268105     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2000.14.3.328     Document Type: Article

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