'Curing queers' : mental nurses and their patients, 1935–74 / Tommy Dickinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickinson, Tommy, author.

Series:

Nursing history and humanities.

Manchester History of Medicine

Nursing History and Humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatric nursing--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Psychiatric nursing.

Aversion therapy--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Aversion therapy.

Nurse and patient--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Nurse and patient.

Gay men--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Gay men.

Cross-dressing--Great Britain--History.

Cross-dressing.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 284 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive 'treatment' for homosexuality and transvestism, and the perceptions and actions of the men and women who nursed them. The book begins in 1935 with the first official report on the use of aversion therapy to combat homosexual desire and continues until 1974, when the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its d

Contents:

Oppression and suppression of the sexual deviant, 1939-1967

Work and practice of mental nurses, 1930-1959

"Subordinate nurses"

"Subversive nurses"

Liberation, 1957-1974.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781784990619

1784990612

9781784990626

1784990620

OCLC:

981868408