U M Read
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 39592 |
|---|---|
| NOME | U M Read |
| PRENOMES | U M |
| SOBRENOME | Read |
| ASSINATURA | READ U M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9482-7898 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Beyond belief
Research on help-seeking for serious mental illness (SMI) has often focused on the influence of cultural beliefs and explanatory models however a number of factors also influence decisions around treatment including availability, cost and quality of care. This study utilises an ecological framework to explore influences on help-seeking for serious mental illness in deprived urban slum communities in Ibadan, Nigeria and Dhaka, Bangladesh. Intervie…
Pluralistic Approaches to Mental Health Care in Ghana
In many African countries, traditional and faith healers are popular options for treating mental health problems. But there are serious concerns about healers engaging in potential human rights abuses. Collaboration between medical professionals and healers has long been proposed to address gaps in mental health services and promote culturally valued care while preventing such abuses. Ghana has pioneered this approach through policy innovations t…
They think we are trying to combine knowledges, whereas we are trying to harmonize them
Implementation of community mental health in Indonesia has been limited and under-resourced. Pasung (physical restraint and confinement) is still commonly used and many people do not receive formal mental health care. While pluralistic use of traditional and faith healing and psychiatric services is common, the relationship between the two systems is ambiguous and overlooked in mental health policy. Meanwhile, examples of collaboration between he…
Inverting the deficit model in global mental health
Global mental health [GMH] scholarship and practice has typically focused on the unmet needs and barriers to mental health in communities, developing biomedical and psychosocial interventions for integration into formal health care platforms in response. In this article, we analyse four diverse settings to disrupt the emphasises on health system weaknesses, treatment gaps and barriers which can perpetuate harmful hierarchies and colonial and medi…
We are all working toward one goal. We want people to become well’
The practices of traditional and faith-based healers in low- and middle-income countries in Africa and elsewhere have come under intense scrutiny in recent years owing to allegations of human rights abuses. To mitigate these, there have been calls to develop collaborations between healers and formal health services to optimise available mental health interventions in poorly resourced contexts. For various reasons, attempts to establish such partn…
The Practice of Philosophy within its Limits
The Practice of Philosophy within its Limits Jason Read (bio) CITIZEN SUBJECT: FOUNDATIONS FOR PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY BY ETIENNE BALIBAR TRANSLATED BY STEVEN MILLER New York: Fordham University Press, 2017 In reviewing Etienne Balibar’s Citizen Subject: Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology, it is important to grasp what kind of book, what kind of work, one is dealing with. The immediate answer would be a collection of essays. This super…
Genealogies and Anthropologies of Global Mental Health
Rights as Relationships
This paper explores the ways in which mental health workers think through the ethics of working with traditional and faith healers in Ghana. Despite reforms along the lines advocated by global mental health, including rights-based legislation and the expansion of community-based mental health care, such healers remain popular resources for treatment and mechanical restraint and other forms of coercion commonplace. As recommended in global mental …
It Is Left to Me and My God
It has been argued that family care contributes to better outcomes for severe mental illness in Africa, and family care is championed as an alternative to institutional treatment; however, poor households are experiencing increasing precarity under global economic changes, which can be exacerbated by chronic illness. This article draws on an ethnographic study in Ghana to explore how families negotiate the tension between the moral imperative to …
Introduction to Special Issue on Intimacy, Morality, and Precarity
With the rise of noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes and cancer, as well as increased longevity, the role of the family in care has increasing importance in health policy and interventions globally. In low-income settings in sub-Saharan Africa, where health and welfare systems are under-resourced, task shifting to community health workers, volunteers, and family members is sometimes proposed to fill the gaps; however migration, urbanization…
Situating Global Mental Health
This introductory chapter of The Palgrave Handbook of Sociocultural Perspectives on Global Mental Health highlights how understanding about aberrant behaviours has varied across time, geography and culture. Important developments that contributed to the emergence of Global Mental Health are discussed. Rather than a monolithic enterprise, Global Mental Health is presented as a heterogeneous range of practice- and research-based activities concerne…
Black Skin, White Coats
This volume is a further contribution to a small but significant number of historical works on the theme of colonialism and psychiatry in sub-Saharan Africa, notably by Megan Vaughan (1991), Josh M
Health inequalities
No Matter How the Child Is, She Is Hers”
Few studies have explored in detail family responses to mental illness in sub-Saharan Africa and the impact on the household. This article draws on ethnographic research in Kintampo, Ghana, to illustrate the social, emotional, and practical consequences of prolonged mental illness. Drawing on Bourdieu’s notion of “practical kinship” this article suggests that the affective and moral force of the family ideal inspires a concern to maintain care fo…
PP40 An Ethnic Minority Cohort of Young People – Feasibility of follow-up in Early Adulthood
Background Under-representation of ethnic minorities in cohort studies is common. The Determinants of (now) Adult Social well-being and Health (DASH) study examines how interaction of social and biological exposures influences ethnic differences in physical and mental health over the life course. It started 10 years ago with 6643 11-13y London schoolchildren, 80% ethnic minorities. A feasibility study examined best practice for follow-up of the c…
I want the one that will heal me completely so it won't come back again
This paper considers responses to treatment with antipsychotics by people with mental illness and their families in rural Ghana, drawing on an anthropological study of family experiences and help seeking for mental illness. Despite a perception among health workers that there was little popular awareness of biomedical treatment for mental disorders, psychiatric services had been used by almost all informants. However, in many cases antipsychotic …
Stakeholders' perceptions of the main challenges facing Ghana's mental health care system
Mental health remains a low priority in Ghana. No comprehensive studies have assessed the current status of mental health policy, legislation and services in Ghana. This paper presents the qualitative results of a situation analysis conducted as part of the first phase of the Mental Health and Poverty Project. The aim of this paper was to explore what a range of stakeholders perceive as the main challenges facing Ghana's mental health system and …
Local suffering and the global discourse of mental health and human rights
BACKGROUND: The Global Movement for Mental Health has brought renewed attention to the neglect of people with mental illness within health policy worldwide. The maltreatment of the mentally ill in many low-income countries is widely reported within psychiatric hospitals, informal healing centres, and family homes. International agencies have called for the development of legislation and policy to address these abuses. However such initiatives exe…
I want the one that will heal me completely so it won't come back again
This paper considers responses to treatment with antipsychotics by people with mental illness and their families in rural Ghana, drawing on an anthropological study of family experiences and help seeking for mental illness. Despite a perception among health workers that there was little popular awareness of biomedical treatment for mental disorders, psychiatric services had been used by almost all informants. However, in many cases antipsychotic …
It Is Left to Me and My God
It has been argued that family care contributes to better outcomes for severe mental illness in Africa, and family care is championed as an alternative to institutional treatment; however, poor households are experiencing increasing precarity under global economic changes, which can be exacerbated by chronic illness. This article draws on an ethnographic study in Ghana to explore how families negotiate the tension between the moral imperative to …
Stakeholders' perceptions of the main challenges facing Ghana's mental health care system
Mental health remains a low priority in Ghana. No comprehensive studies have assessed the current status of mental health policy, legislation and services in Ghana. This paper presents the qualitative results of a situation analysis conducted as part of the first phase of the Mental Health and Poverty Project. The aim of this paper was to explore what a range of stakeholders perceive as the main challenges facing Ghana's mental health system and …
We are all working toward one goal. We want people to become well’
The practices of traditional and faith-based healers in low- and middle-income countries in Africa and elsewhere have come under intense scrutiny in recent years owing to allegations of human rights abuses. To mitigate these, there have been calls to develop collaborations between healers and formal health services to optimise available mental health interventions in poorly resourced contexts. For various reasons, attempts to establish such partn…
Introduction to Special Issue on Intimacy, Morality, and Precarity
With the rise of noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes and cancer, as well as increased longevity, the role of the family in care has increasing importance in health policy and interventions globally. In low-income settings in sub-Saharan Africa, where health and welfare systems are under-resourced, task shifting to community health workers, volunteers, and family members is sometimes proposed to fill the gaps; however migration, urbanization…
Local suffering and the global discourse of mental health and human rights
BACKGROUND: The Global Movement for Mental Health has brought renewed attention to the neglect of people with mental illness within health policy worldwide. The maltreatment of the mentally ill in many low-income countries is widely reported within psychiatric hospitals, informal healing centres, and family homes. International agencies have called for the development of legislation and policy to address these abuses. However such initiatives exe…
Stakeholders' perceptions of the main challenges facing Ghana's mental health care system
Mental health remains a low priority in Ghana. No comprehensive studies have assessed the current status of mental health policy, legislation and services in Ghana. This paper presents the qualitative results of a situation analysis conducted as part of the first phase of the Mental Health and Poverty Project. The aim of this paper was to explore what a range of stakeholders perceive as the main challenges facing Ghana's mental health system and …
I want the one that will heal me completely so it won't come back again
This paper considers responses to treatment with antipsychotics by people with mental illness and their families in rural Ghana, drawing on an anthropological study of family experiences and help seeking for mental illness. Despite a perception among health workers that there was little popular awareness of biomedical treatment for mental disorders, psychiatric services had been used by almost all informants. However, in many cases antipsychotic …
PP40 An Ethnic Minority Cohort of Young People – Feasibility of follow-up in Early Adulthood
Background Under-representation of ethnic minorities in cohort studies is common. The Determinants of (now) Adult Social well-being and Health (DASH) study examines how interaction of social and biological exposures influences ethnic differences in physical and mental health over the life course. It started 10 years ago with 6643 11-13y London schoolchildren, 80% ethnic minorities. A feasibility study examined best practice for follow-up of the c…
Health inequalities
No Matter How the Child Is, She Is Hers”
Few studies have explored in detail family responses to mental illness in sub-Saharan Africa and the impact on the household. This article draws on ethnographic research in Kintampo, Ghana, to illustrate the social, emotional, and practical consequences of prolonged mental illness. Drawing on Bourdieu’s notion of “practical kinship” this article suggests that the affective and moral force of the family ideal inspires a concern to maintain care fo…
Black Skin, White Coats
This volume is a further contribution to a small but significant number of historical works on the theme of colonialism and psychiatry in sub-Saharan Africa, notably by Megan Vaughan (1991), Josh M
Situating Global Mental Health
This introductory chapter of The Palgrave Handbook of Sociocultural Perspectives on Global Mental Health highlights how understanding about aberrant behaviours has varied across time, geography and culture. Important developments that contributed to the emergence of Global Mental Health are discussed. Rather than a monolithic enterprise, Global Mental Health is presented as a heterogeneous range of practice- and research-based activities concerne…
Genealogies and Anthropologies of Global Mental Health
Rights as Relationships
This paper explores the ways in which mental health workers think through the ethics of working with traditional and faith healers in Ghana. Despite reforms along the lines advocated by global mental health, including rights-based legislation and the expansion of community-based mental health care, such healers remain popular resources for treatment and mechanical restraint and other forms of coercion commonplace. As recommended in global mental …
It Is Left to Me and My God
It has been argued that family care contributes to better outcomes for severe mental illness in Africa, and family care is championed as an alternative to institutional treatment; however, poor households are experiencing increasing precarity under global economic changes, which can be exacerbated by chronic illness. This article draws on an ethnographic study in Ghana to explore how families negotiate the tension between the moral imperative to …
Introduction to Special Issue on Intimacy, Morality, and Precarity
With the rise of noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes and cancer, as well as increased longevity, the role of the family in care has increasing importance in health policy and interventions globally. In low-income settings in sub-Saharan Africa, where health and welfare systems are under-resourced, task shifting to community health workers, volunteers, and family members is sometimes proposed to fill the gaps; however migration, urbanization…
The Practice of Philosophy within its Limits
The Practice of Philosophy within its Limits Jason Read (bio) CITIZEN SUBJECT: FOUNDATIONS FOR PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY BY ETIENNE BALIBAR TRANSLATED BY STEVEN MILLER New York: Fordham University Press, 2017 In reviewing Etienne Balibar’s Citizen Subject: Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology, it is important to grasp what kind of book, what kind of work, one is dealing with. The immediate answer would be a collection of essays. This super…
We are all working toward one goal. We want people to become well’
The practices of traditional and faith-based healers in low- and middle-income countries in Africa and elsewhere have come under intense scrutiny in recent years owing to allegations of human rights abuses. To mitigate these, there have been calls to develop collaborations between healers and formal health services to optimise available mental health interventions in poorly resourced contexts. For various reasons, attempts to establish such partn…
Inverting the deficit model in global mental health
Global mental health [GMH] scholarship and practice has typically focused on the unmet needs and barriers to mental health in communities, developing biomedical and psychosocial interventions for integration into formal health care platforms in response. In this article, we analyse four diverse settings to disrupt the emphasises on health system weaknesses, treatment gaps and barriers which can perpetuate harmful hierarchies and colonial and medi…
Pluralistic Approaches to Mental Health Care in Ghana
In many African countries, traditional and faith healers are popular options for treating mental health problems. But there are serious concerns about healers engaging in potential human rights abuses. Collaboration between medical professionals and healers has long been proposed to address gaps in mental health services and promote culturally valued care while preventing such abuses. Ghana has pioneered this approach through policy innovations t…
They think we are trying to combine knowledges, whereas we are trying to harmonize them
Implementation of community mental health in Indonesia has been limited and under-resourced. Pasung (physical restraint and confinement) is still commonly used and many people do not receive formal mental health care. While pluralistic use of traditional and faith healing and psychiatric services is common, the relationship between the two systems is ambiguous and overlooked in mental health policy. Meanwhile, examples of collaboration between he…
Beyond belief
Research on help-seeking for serious mental illness (SMI) has often focused on the influence of cultural beliefs and explanatory models however a number of factors also influence decisions around treatment including availability, cost and quality of care. This study utilises an ecological framework to explore influences on help-seeking for serious mental illness in deprived urban slum communities in Ibadan, Nigeria and Dhaka, Bangladesh. Intervie…
Mental health (14 obras) · Psychiatry (14 obras) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (13 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Medicine (10 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Nursing (7 obras) · Family Caregiving in Mental Illness (6 obras) · Law (5 obras)