Joan Busfield

Joan Busfield
Born	(1940-06-22) 22 June 1940
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Essex
Known for	Research into psychiatry and mental disorder
Scientific career
Fields	Sociologist
Institutions	University of Essex
Doctoral students	Diana Gittins
Website	www.essex.ac.uk/sociology/staff/profile.aspx?id=123

Joan Busfield (born 22 June 1940), is a British sociologist and psychologist, Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex and former President of the British Sociological Association (2003–2005). Her research focuses on psychiatry and mental disorder.

Education

She originally trained as a clinical psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic, and holds an MA from St Andrews, and an MA and a PhD from Essex.

Selected bibliography

• Busfield, Joan; Paddon, Michael (1977). Thinking about children: sociology and fertility in post-war England. Cambridge England New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521214025.
• Busfield, Joan (1989). Managing madness: changing ideas and practice. London: Unwin Hyman. ISBN 9780044453802.
• Busfield, Joan (1996). Men, women, and madness: understanding gender and mental disorder. Washington Square, New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9780333463703.
• Busfield, Joan; Lyon, E. Stina (1996). Methodological imaginations. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: MacMillan. ISBN 9780333630921.
• Busfield, Joan (2000). Health and health care in modern Britain. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198781233.
• Busfield, Joan (2011). Mental illness. Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts: Polity Press. ISBN 9780745649054.

Journal articles

• Busfield, Joan (September 2000). "Introduction: rethinking the sociology of mental health". Sociology of Health & Illness. 22 (5). Wiley Online: 543–558. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.00219. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)