Medicine, madness and murderers: the context of English forensic psychiatric hospitals

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Medicine, madness and murderers: the context of English forensic psychiatric hospitals

Approach: We used qualitative data collection (interviews and focus groups with staff and site visits to English forensic psychiatry hospitals) and our analysis was informed by Lefebvre’s writings on space. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to add to our understanding of context by shedding lig...

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Main Authors:	McDonald, Ruth, Furtado, Vivek, Völlm, Birgit
Format:	Article
Published:	Emerald 2017
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43696/

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