FergusonComments-Gareth

I guess I will skip gareth and move onto Sonya?

Citations: As Kim has mentioned there isn't a set of social science documents that might help me understand how you are orienting yourself on this issue. You could do anything from a Nancy Campbell sort of look at a particular categorization of symptom (and deliniation of person as this symptom); Ali was looking at dimentia in something similar to this sort of analysis. You could also be looking at the drugs and treatments that have developed over time as understandings and cultural awareness of the disorder expanded/contracted. You could even go so far as to look at indigenous health systems and how they work with/treat individuals that have similar symptoms as schizophrenia.

One of your three journals should have some reference that would be of help in orienting yourself on the topic.

Three journals: Social Cognition in Schizophrenia (Schizophrenia Bulletin 2008 34(4):670-672)

In this citation you mention that there are bridging issues between classes of medical experts. Do you think that this might be an intervention point for your research, is this the biggest problem on the topic of schizophrenia, are there other items deeper in the journal that resonate more with your interests?

In particular I'm wondering if one of the other articles you mention, titled "Family Support and Substance Use Outcomes for Persons With Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders", is more in line with your interests as the family support is something of a lay expertise development by parents and family that creates grassroots treatment contrary to the medical establishments position on using pharma?

Is the Social Robotics journal limited in that it doesn't seem (according to your description) to be interested in being reflexive about their own field: The original, peer-reviewed articles and contributions focus primarily on innovative ideas and concepts, new discoveries and improvements, as well as novel applications in the core technologies of social robotics. Topics of interest include design philosophies, socially appealing design methodologies, human-robot interaction, robot-robot interaction, neurorobotics, biomedical robotics, robot-ethics in human society and interactive robotic arts. --Where are the mentions of social robotics gone wrong or robotics that are not designed for socialization but still impact social beings?

Memo Literatures: I don't have much...what I'm actually interested in is how the two literatures overlap in your mind? What is it about your interests that would require you to learn up on schizophrenia so much that you would be able to interact as a sometime expert on the subject?