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A History of Self-Harm in Britain : A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing / by Chris Millard.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Millard, Chris, Author.
- Series:
- Mental Health in Historical Perspective, 2634-6044
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--History.
- Medicine.
- Great Britain--History.
- Great Britain.
- Science--History.
- Science.
- Social history.
- Psychiatry.
- History, Modern.
- History of Medicine.
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- History of Science.
- Social History.
- Modern History.
- Local Subjects:
- History of Medicine.
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- History of Science.
- Social History.
- Psychiatry.
- Modern History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 268 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- 2015.
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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 wider politics.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781137529626
- 1137529628
- OCLC:
- 938001024
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access.
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