Mental health is everybody’s business: The doxa and illusio of local public policy implementation
Health:: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
Published online on December 04, 2025
Abstract
Health, Ahead of Print.
This paper provides a novel application of Bourdieu’s theory to the implementation of public policy in the mental health field, by deploying two of his lesser-used concepts (doxa and illusio). Framing a local case study as a Bourdieusian game, we ...
This paper provides a novel application of Bourdieu’s theory to the implementation of public policy in the mental health field, by deploying two of his lesser-used concepts (doxa and illusio). Framing a local case study as a Bourdieusian game, we ...