A History of Self-Harm in Britain

A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing

Chris Millard (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

268 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-54773-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.8.2015
Reihe/Serie	Mental Health in Historical Perspective
Zusatzinfo	IX, 268 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-137-54773-1 / 1137547731
ISBN-13	978-1-137-54773-6 / 9781137547736
Zustand	Neuware