A History of Self-Harm in Britain A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing

This book is open access under a CC BY license and charts the rise and fall of various self-harming behaviours in twentieth-century Britain. It puts self-cutting and overdosing into historical perspective, linking them to the huge changes that occur in mental and physical healthcare, social work and...

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Autor principal:	Millard, Chris. author (author)
Formato:	Libro electrónico
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Basingstoke Springer Nature 2015 London : 2015.
Edición:	1st ed. 2015.
Colección:	Mental Health in Historical Perspective,
Materias:	Medicine—History. Great Britain—History. History. Social history. Psychiatry. History, Modern. History of Medicine. History of Britain and Ireland. History of Science. Social History. Modern History. political context britain overdosing self-harming behaviour self harm historical context self-cutting medicine history Great Britain social history psychiatry Hospital Mental disorder Poison Ponyo language Psychiatry Social environment Suicide Suicide attempt
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This book is open access under a CC BY license.
Introduction: Self-Harm From Social Setting To Neurobiology
1. Early Twentieth-Century Self-Harm: Cut Throats, General And Mental Medicine
2. Communicative Self-Damage: War, NHS And Social Work
3. Self-Harm Becomes Epidemic: Mental Health (1959) And Suicide (1961) Acts
4. Self-Harm As A Result Of Domestic Distress
5. Self-Harm As Self-Cutting: Inpatients And Internal Tension
Conclusion: The Politics Of Self-Harm: Social Setting And Self-Regulation.

A History of Self-Harm in Britain A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing

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