History of Self-Harm in Britain (eBook)

A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing

Chris Millard (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015 | 1st ed. 2015
IX, 280 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-52962-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.8.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Mental Health in Historical Perspective
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Accident and Emergency • attempted suicide • Health • history of medicine • History of psychiatry • liaison psychiatry • Mental Health Act • National Health Service • Neoliberalism • Neurobiology • open access • overdosing • Psychiatry • self-cutting • Self-Harm • Service • Social Work • Stress • Suicide • Suicide Act • Welfare State
• ISBN-10: 1-137-52962-8 / 1137529628
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-52962-6 / 9781137529626