Mental health homicide and society : understanding health care governance / David Horton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horton, David P. (David Paul), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Luhmann, Niklas, 1927-1998--Influence.

Luhmann, Niklas.

Homicide--Great Britain.

Homicide.

Insanity (Law)--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Insanity (Law).

Mentally ill offenders--Great Britain.

Mentally ill offenders.

Murderers--Mental health--Great Britain.

Murderers.

Law.

Medical Law and Ethics.

Socio-Legal Studies.

Local Subjects:

Law.

Medical Law and Ethics.

Socio-Legal Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"A homicide committed by a mentally disordered person who is under the care of health service professionals is a shocking event. Otherwise known as a 'patient homicide', these incidents are followed by an investigation into the care and treatment received by the perpetrator. These investigations are often regarded as a way to 'learn lessons', establish accountability and provide catharsis to families and the public. The book argues however that patient homicide events and the circumstances in which they occur are communicated about within closed systems of life (eg law, medicine). These systems operate according to unique internal logics. The communications produced by these systems, nevertheless, resonate in society and enable a diverse and complex space of governance to emerge - a space of governance in which universal understandings about patient homicides, health care, public safety and risk are unachievable."

Contents:

1. Homicide and Health Care: Context and Complexity

I. Introduction

II. Patient Homicide and Health Care

III. Background and Context

IV. Thinking About Complexity

V. Central Questions and Themes

VI. Conclusions

2. The Investigatory Domain

II. The Inquiry

III. The Inquiry Industry

IV. Conclusions

3. Social Systems

II. Theoretical Background

III. Conclusions

4. The Patient Homicide Governance Space

II. Legal Realities

III. Political Realities

IV. Scientific Realities

V. Medical Realities

VI. Economic Realities

VII. Moral Realities

VIII. Mass Media Realities

IX. The Implications of Social Autopoiesis

X. Conclusions

5. Accountability and Time

II. Accountability as Communication

III. The Concept of Time

IV. Accountability and Time

V. Conclusions

6. Risk and Protest

II. The Concept of Risk

III. Protest and Politics

IV. Conclusions

Notes:

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Manchester, 2014) issued under title: Looking through the reeds : system-theorising the Independent homicide inquiry.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index.

ISBN:

9781509912162

1509912169

9781509912155

1509912150

9781509912131

1509912134

OCLC:

1151397070