The glass-walled asylum: A description of a lay residential community for the severely mentally ill

Journal of Mental Health

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 319-332

  Owens, Christabel ^a  

^a PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asylum; Ethnography; Moral treatment; New long stay population; Residential care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HOSPITAL;

EID: 3042622510     PISSN: 09638237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638230410001700943     Document Type: Article

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