Mental Health Ontologies
How We Talk About Mental Health, and Why it Matters in the Digital Age
Janna Hastings
Mental Health Ontologies
How We Talk About Mental Health, and Why it Matters in the Digital Age
Janna Hastings
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This book tackles fragmentation in mental health discourse and in particular the relationship between academic discourse in different disciplinary silos and public discourse in the media. It argues that fragmentation in public discourse does harm, and that an approach is needed that is able to integrate across perspectives holistically.
The author, combining training in computer science, philosophy and biological sciences, brings this multi-disciplinary depth to exploring a series of interconnected problems with the ways in which mental health is studied and understood… There is much that could be learnt by alcohol and drug scholars and practitioners reading this slim and accessible volume.
Janna Hastings grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, where she studied Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Cape Town, before moving to Cambridge, UK. Since 2010 she has been an active researcher in applied ontology, which brings philosophical depth to the problems of knowledge representation in the life sciences.