Chris Millard

A History of Self-Harm in Britain

A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Mental Health in Historical Perspective
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan / Wellcome Trust
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-54773-6
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9781137547736
• ISBN-10: 1137547731
• Artikelnr.: 42800042

Autorenporträt

Chris Millard is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, UK, interested in Munchasuen syndromes (including Munchausen by Proxy and Munchausen by Internet), self-harm, attempted suicide and parity of esteem in mental health. He helps run the Carnival of Lost Emotions - engaging the public about the history of feelings.

Inhaltsangabe

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