Making Good of Crisis: Temporalities of Care in UK Mental Health Services.
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Authors
Wright, Fiona
Publication Date
2022-04Journal Title
Med Anthropol
ISSN
0145-9740
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Language
English
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Article
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Wright, F. (2022). Making Good of Crisis: Temporalities of Care in UK Mental Health Services.. Med Anthropol https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2021.2018586
Abstract
A paradoxical concept of crisis has come to dominate contemporary understandings of suffering and care: as that which will reach a critical turning point, while also being chronic and enduring. I analyze this temporal enigma through an ethnography of mental health care practitioners in the UK who see themselves as embedded in a crisis-stricken care system, yet attempt to reformulate their therapeutic approach to crisis in productive ways: to make "good" of crisis. I argue that their efforts to make good in and of the temporal interstices of crisis disclose care as temporally unstable as well as ethically ambivalent.
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This research was funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [grant agreement 683033].
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2021.2018586
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/333934
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