Health: The politics of risk and trust in mental health

Critical Quarterly

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 82-102

  Wilkinson, John ^a  

^a North East London Strategic Health Authority   (Canada)

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EID: 38849111782     PISSN: 00111562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0011-1562.2004.00587.x     Document Type: Review

References (23)

1. Slavoj Žižek, 'Bring me my Philips Mental Jacket', London Review of Books, 25:10, 22 May 2003, 3 and 5. The essay has been posted on the net at www.lrb.co.uk/ v25/nl0/zize01-.html
2. See for instance his summary account in the introduction to Ulrich Beck, World Risk Society (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999), 3-4
3. Letter from Roger Lancaster, London Review of Books, 25:13, 10 July 2003. Posted on the net at www.lrb.co.uk/v25/nl3/letters.html#8
4. Such speculations are the stock in trade of techno-booster publications such as Wired, but are contemplated as realistic by scientists, even those whose judgements on the risks attending scientific progress are sober if not sombre: see for instance Martin Rees, Our Final Hour (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 181
5. Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky, Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1983), 71
6. The failure of such predictions has led to giddy but influential hype about the inexhaustibility of natural resources. See Frederick Buell on 'The Culture of Hyperexuberance', in Buell, From Apocalypse to Way of Life (New York and London: Routledge, 2003), esp. 219-20
7. Joost Van Loon, Risk and Technological Culture: Towards a Sociology of Virulence (New York and London: Routledge, 2002), 41
8. This is a major theme of Richard Sennett, Respect, in a World of Inequality (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2003); see esp. pp. 75-83 on Potential Ability
9. Letter from Denys Trussell, London Review of Books, 25:12, 19 June 2003. Posted on the net at www.lrb.co.uk/v25/nl2/letters.html#l
10. A strong version of the biological-environmental relationship motivates the argument of Matt Ridley, Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human (New York: HarperCollins, 2003)
11. The account of synaptic regression demonstrated by Hubel and Wiesel in the brains of cats is derived from Joseph LeDoux, Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are (New York: Penguin Books, 2003), 75-6, and the summary of the 'instruction and selection' processes involved in brain development from the same work (pp. 74-9)
12. Report of the Joint Best Value Review of Mental Health Services, City and Hackney Health and Social Care Partnership Board, London, September 2002. The figures below are taken from Appendix 2, p. 8
13. David Mechanic, Mental Health and Social Policy: The Emergence of Managed Care, 4th edn (Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1999)
14. Robert Whitaker, Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Treatment of the Mentally Ill (Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books, 2002)
15. The preceding account is drawn from Joseph T. Hallinan, Going Up the River, Travels in a Prison Nation (New York: Random House, rev. edn 2003), ch. 6, pp. 73-91
16. In a series of books, notably History After Lacan (London: Routledge, 1993)
17. and Globalization and its Terrors, Daily Life in the West (London: Routledge, 2003)
18. J. Coid, N. Kahtan, A. Cook, S. Gault and B. Jarman, 'Predicting Admission Rates to Secure Forensic Psychiatry Services', Psychological Medicine, 31 (2001), 531-9
19. See the section 'Cultural Orientations' in the Introduction to Janis Hunter Jenkins and Robert John Barrett (eds), Schizophrenia, Culture and Subjectivity, the Edge of Experience, Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 4-7
20. and, in the same volume, Janis Hunter Jenkins, 'Schizophrenia as a Paradigm Case for Understanding Fundamental Human Processes', 29-61
21. Drew Milne, Go Figure (Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2003), 108
22. See 'Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective', in Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (London: Free Associations Books, 1991), 183-202, and indeed the entire Part 3 of the book including this essay
23. Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia, The Business of Private Protection (Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1993), 2