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The Political Economy of Mental Illness in South Africa
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Political Economy of Mental Illness in South Africa af Andre J van Rensburg, 9780367683290
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
174
ISBN-13:
9780367683290
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0367683296
Udg. Dato:
31 maj 2023
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 15,6
Oplagsdato:
31 maj 2023
Forfatter(e):

The Political Economy of Mental Illness in South Africa

Engelsk
Paperback 2023
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The book describes key socio-political reforms that helped shape post-apartheid South Africa’s mental health system.

The author interrogates how reforms shaped public, community-based services for people living with severe mental illness, and how features of this care has been determined, in part at least, by the relations between actors and structures in the state, private for-profit health care, and civil society spheres. A description of the development of South Africa’s post-apartheid health system, and the contentions that emerge therein, sets the stage for an analysis of the country’s most tragic human rights failure during its democratic period, namely the Life Esidimeni tragedy. The roots of the tragedy are not only framed as a loss of life and dignity as a result of political corruption and administrative mismanagement, but as a power differential that ultimately highlights an unjust system that relegates its most vulnerable citizens to commodities, without voice and without agency. The book concludes that the commodification of severe mental illness has been a product of neoliberal discourses that have shaped the economistic ways in which the post-apartheid South African state have governed poverty and severe mental illness.

This book will be of interest to scholars of health, social and economic policy in South Africa.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
174
ISBN-13:
9780367683290
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0367683296
Udg. Dato:
31 maj 2023
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 15,6
Oplagsdato:
31 maj 2023
Forfatter(e):
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