Emptying Beds: The Work of an Emergency Psychiatric Unit Volume 27

by Lorna A. Rhodes

Book Overview

The work of inner-city emergency psychiatric units might best be described as "medicine under siege." Emptying Beds is the result of the author's two-year immersion in one such unit and its work. It is an account of the strategies developed by a staff of psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, and other mental health workers to deal with the dilemmas they face every day.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520203518
• ISBN13: 9780520203518
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"