Mental Health, Social Mirror

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Avison, William R. (Editor), McLeod, Jane D. (Editor), Pescosolido, Bernice A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Medicine.; Sociology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

While mental health figured prominently in the writings of classical sociologists, contemporary sociologists often view research on mental health as peripheral to the "real work" of the discipline. The essays in this volume reassert the centrality of research in mental health to sociology....