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portada Between Families and Institutions: Mental Health and Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China
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Publisher
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Language
English
Pages
224
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781478028512

Between Families and Institutions: Mental Health and Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China

Zhiying Ma (Author) · Duke University Press · Hardcover

Between Families and Institutions: Mental Health and Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China - Zhiying Ma

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Synopsis "Between Families and Institutions: Mental Health and Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China"

In contemporary China, people diagnosed with serious mental illnesses have long been placed under the guardianship of close relatives who decide on their hospitalization and treatment. Despite attempts at reforms to ensure patient rights, the 2013 Mental Health Law reinforced the family's rights and responsibilities. In Between Families and Institutions, Zhiying Ma examines how ideological, institutional, and technological processes shape families' complicated involvement in psychiatric care. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in psychiatric hospitals, community mental health teams, social work centers, and family support groups as well as interviews with policymakers and activists, Ma maps the workings of what she calls "biopolitical paternalism"--a mode of governance that sees vulnerable individuals as sources of risk, frames risk management as the state's paternalistic intervention, and shifts responsibilities for care and management onto families. Ma outlines the ethical tensions, intimate vulnerabilities in households, and health disparities across the population that biopolitical paternalism produces. By exploring these implications, Ma demonstrates the myriad ways biopower enables, inhibits, and transforms medical care in China.

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