{"product_id":"mad-world","title":"Mad World","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMad World\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMicha Frazer-Carroll\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780745346717\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePluto Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2023\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e Dazed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Exposes the underlying truth that capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with our wellbeing, and teaches us how to transform the ways we understand madness, illness, and disability to build a better world' \u003c\/b\u003eBeatrice Adler-Bolton, co-author of \u003ci\u003eHealth Communism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Mental health is a political issue, but we often discuss it as a personal one. How is the current mental health crisis connected to capitalism, racism and other social issues? In a different world, how might we transform the ways that we think about mental health, diagnosis and treatment? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e These are some of the big questions Micha Frazer-Carroll asks as she reveals mental health to be an urgent political concern that needs deeper understanding beyond today's 'awareness-raising' campaigns. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Exploring the history of asylums and psychiatry; the relationship between disability justice, queer liberation and mental health; art and creativity; prisons and abolition; and alternative models of care; \u003ci\u003eMad World\u003c\/i\u003e is a radical and hopeful antidote to pathologisation, gatekeeping and the policing of imagination. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMicha Frazer-Carroll\u003c\/b\u003e is a columnist at the \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e. Micha has written for \u003ci\u003eVogue, HuffPost, Huck, gal-dem \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Dazed.\u003c\/i\u003e She was nominated for the Comment Awards' Fresh New Voice of the Year Award, and the Observer\/Anthony Burgess Award for Arts Criticism. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Mad World | Micha Frazer-Carroll | Paperback | 9780745346717 | New | Politics 1689274","offer_id":50808967725314,"sku":"1689274","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71nStZezl-L.jpg?v=1792465782","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/mad-world","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}