Diana Gittins

Madness in its Place (eBook, ePUB)

Narratives of Severalls Hospital 1913-1997

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This fascinating study presents a unique history of psychiatry in the twentieth century. It brings together the memories and narratives of over sixty patients and workers who lived, or were employed, in Severalls Psychiatric Hospital, Essex, UK. Personal accounts are contextualised both in relation to wider developments and issues in twentieth-century mental health, and in relation to policies and changes in the hospital itself. Organised around the theme of space and place, and drawing upon both quantitative and qualitative material, chapters deal with key areas such as gender divisions, power relations, patterns of admission and discharge, treatments, and the daily lives and routines of patients and nurses of both sexes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134670635
• Artikelnr.: 42669566

Autorenporträt

Diana Gittins

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of tables
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: space
time and madness
2 At the gate
3 The corridor of power
4 The great divide
5 On the female side
6 On the male side
7 The space and pace of treatments
8 Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index