How Long to Read The Political Economy of Mental Illness in South Africa

How Long Does it Take to Read The Political Economy of Mental Illness in South Africa?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 28 minutes to read The Political Economy of Mental Illness in South Africa by André J van Rensburg

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The book describes key socio-political reforms that helped shape post-apartheid South Africa’s mental health system. The author interrogates how reforms shaped public, community-based services for people living with severe mental illness, and how features of this care has been determined, in part at least, by the relations between actors and structures in the state, private for-profit health care, and civil society spheres. A description of the development of South Africa’s post-apartheid health system, and the contentions that emerge therein, sets the stage for an analysis of the country’s most tragic human rights failure during its democratic period, namely the Life Esidimeni tragedy. The roots of the tragedy are not only framed as a loss of life and dignity as a result of political corruption and administrative mismanagement, but as a power differential that ultimately highlights an unjust system that relegates its most vulnerable citizens to commodities, without voice and without agency. The book concludes that the commodification of severe mental illness has been a product of neoliberal discourses that have shaped the economistic ways in which the post-apartheid South African state have governed poverty and severe mental illness. This book will be of interest to scholars of health, social and economic policy in South Africa.

How long is The Political Economy of Mental Illness in South Africa?

The Political Economy of Mental Illness in South Africa by André J van Rensburg is 259 pages long, and a total of 67,081 words.

This makes it 87% the length of the average book. It also has 82% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Political Economy of Mental Illness in South Africa Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 6 minutes to read The Political Economy of Mental Illness in South Africa aloud.

What Reading Level is The Political Economy of Mental Illness in South Africa?

The Political Economy of Mental Illness in South Africa is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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