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Making a spectacle of herself: Reading community mental health nursing assessments
Author(s) -
Street Annette
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
nursing inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.66
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1440-1800
pISSN - 1320-7881
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1994.tb00121.x
Subject(s) - spectacle , reading (process) , nursing , mental health nursing , psychology , mental health , medicine , psychiatry , political science , law
The metaphor of mapping is used in this paper to examine the discursive construction of women whose nudity in public places (making a spectacle of herself) provides dilemmas for community mental health nurses required to make assessments of these women's ability to function in die community. Excerpts from stories provided by die nurses are used to demonstrate the complexity of die decision‐making processes and the limits to die choices they perceive they can make.