Mental illness and learning disability since 1850: finding a place for mental disorder in the United Kingdom
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Main Author: Dale, Pamela 1975- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon [u.a.] Routledge 2012
Edition:1. publ.
Series:Routledge studies in the social history of medicine 22
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-228) and index
The politics of mental welfare : fresh perspectives on the history of institutionalized care for the mentally ill and disabled / Pamela Dale and Joseph Melling -- Workhouse care of the insane, 1845-1890 / Elaine Murphy -- Needs and desires in the care of paper lunatics : admissions to Worcester Asylum, 1852-1872 / Frank Crompton -- 'Buried alive by her friends' : asylum narratives and the English governess, 1845-1914 / Joseph Melling -- Separatism and exclusion : women in psychiatry, 1900-1950 / Louise Westwood -- Family, gender and class in psychiatric patient care during the 1930s : the 1930 Mental Treatment Act and the Devon Mental Hospital / David Pearce -- The 'manufacture' of mental defectives : increased in Scotland, 1857-1939 / Matt Egan -- Tension in the voluntary-statutory alliance : 'lay professionals' and the planning and delivery of mental deficiency services, 1917-1945 / Pamela Dale -- 'A satisfactory job is the best psychotherapist' : employment and mental health, 1939-60 / Vicky Long -- Inside the walls of the hostel, 1940-1974 / John Welshman -- Landmarks in the care of the mentally disordered
Physical Description:xi, 234 p. 24 cm
ISBN:9780415514132
0415364914
9780415364911

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