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A. SCOTT CATEY, Ph.D., J.D.
Wales
My dissertation research centered on the
intersections of racialization and institutional
reforms in the Welsh National Health Service (NHS)
in the early years of the 21st century. I am
especially interested epistemologies of race and
cultural difference as these intersect with law-
and policy-making and the construction of various
regimes (diagnostic, therapeutic, pharmaceutical,
regulatory) which simultaneously constitute and
target the taxonomies of "mental ill-health,"
"mental health" and "wellbeing," as well as the
categories (and performance of categories) of
illness, diagnosis/prognosis, (non)compliance,
prudence, ætiologies, and causalities that
contribute to the subjective experience and
embodiment of (mental) health and (mental)
illness.
In addition, my research in
Wales examines rural development and the changing
role of farmers and other rural producers, and the
efforts of the National Assembly for Wales to
construct and implement strategies of rural-urban
connection and sustainability projects. As well, I
am interested in the political and cultural
distinctiveness of Wales within Britain and within
Europe more broadly.
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Roath
Park,
Cardiff
June
2009
(© A. Scott Catey, 2009)
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