Tous les livres numériques de la collection "Mental Health in Historical Perspective" - Palgrave Macmillan

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Non-Aligned Psychiatry in the Cold War Ana Antic This book explores the relationship between socialist psychiatry and political ideology during the Cold War, tracing Yugoslav ‘psy’ sciences as they experienced multiple internationalisations and globalisations in the post-WWII period. These unique transnational... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2022-01-18 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective ePub 116,04 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Hungarian Psychiatry, Society and Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century Emese Lafferton This book provides the first comprehensive study of the history of Hungarian psychiatry between 1850 and 1920, placed in both an Austro-Hungarian and wider European comparative framework. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book captures the institutional worlds... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2021-11-29 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Lobotomy Nation Jesper Vaczy Kragh This book tells the story of one of medicine’s most (in)famous treatments: the neurosurgical operation commonly known as lobotomy. Invented by Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz in 1935, lobotomy or psychosurgery became widely used in a number of countries, including... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2021-10-09 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Private Madhouses in England, 1640–1815 Leonard Smith This book examines the origins and early development of private mental health-care in England, showing that the current spectacle of commercially-based participation in key elements of service provision is no new phenomenon. In 1815, about seventy per cent of people... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-06-18 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Psychiatry in Communist Europe Sarah Marks , Mat Savelli This is the first book to address the history of psychiatry under Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, from the Soviet Union to East Germany. It brings together new research addressing understandings of mental health and disorder, treatments and therapies, and the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-05-26 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective PDF 116,04 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
London and its Asylums, 1888-1914 Robert Ellis This book explores the impact that politics had on the management of mental health care at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 1888 and the introduction of the Local Government Act marked a turning point in which democratically elected bodies became... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-05-20 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Idiocy, Imbecility and Insanity in Victorian Society Stef Eastoe This book explores the understudied history of the so-called ‘incurables’ in the Victorian period, the people identified as idiots, imbeciles and the weak-minded, as opposed to those thought to have curable conditions. It focuses on Caterham, England’s first state... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-02-19 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective PDF, ePub 84,39 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Why Talk About Madness? Catharine Coleborne This short book argues for the relevance of historical perspectives on mental health, exploring how these histories can and should inform debates about mental healthcare today. Why is it important to study the history of madness? What does it mean to voice these... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-01-13 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective PDF, ePub 31,64 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Psycho-Politics between the World Wars David Freis This book is about the psycho-political visions and programmes in early-twentieth century Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Amidst the political and social unrest that followed the First World War, psychiatrists attempted to use their clinical insights to understand,... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-11-07 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective PDF, ePub 60,12 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Insanity and Immigration Control in New Zealand and Australia, 1860–1930 Jennifer S. Kain This book examines the policy and practice of the insanity clauses within the immigration controls of New Zealand and the Commonwealth of Australia. It reveals those charged with operating the legislation to be non-psychiatric gatekeepers who struggled to match its... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-10-03 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective PDF, ePub 84,39 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Preventing Mental Illness Despo Kritsotaki , Vicky Long , Matthew Smith This book provides an overview of a diverse array of preventive strategies relating to mental illness, and identifies their achievements and shortcomings. The chapters in this collection illustrate how researchers, clinicians and policy makers drew inspiration from... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-10-16 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective PDF, ePub 70,67 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay Sarah Ann Pinto This book traces the historical roots of the problems in India’s mental health care system. It accounts for indigenous experiences of the lunatic asylum in the Bombay Presidency (1793-1921). The book argues that the colonial lunatic asylum failed to assimilate into... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-08-28 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Alice Mauger This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in nineteenth-century Ireland. Examining nine institutions, it explores whether concepts of social class and status and the emergence of a strong middle class informed... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-12-21 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective PDF, ePub Gratuit PDF ePub Télécharger Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum Jennifer Wallis This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian asylum doctors looked to the bodily fabric to reveal the ‘truth’ of mental disease, a whole... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-11-14 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective PDF, ePub Gratuit PDF ePub Télécharger Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People Claire Hilton This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book tells the story of Barbara Robb and her pressure group, Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions (AEGIS). In 1965, Barbara visited 73-year-old Amy Gibbs in a dilapidated and overcrowded National Health... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-09-15 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective PDF, ePub Gratuit PDF ePub Télécharger Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Deinstitutionalisation and After Despo Kritsotaki , Vicky Long , Matthew Smith The book relates the history of post-war psychiatry, focusing on deinstitutionalisation, namely the shift from asylum to community in the second part of the twentieth century.After the Second World War, psychiatry and mental health care were reshaped by... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2016-11-29 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective PDF, ePub 84,39 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
A History of Male Psychological Disorders in Britain, 1945-1980 Alison Haggett This book is open access under a CC BY license and explores the under-researched history of male mental illness from the mid-twentieth century. It argues that statistics suggesting women have been more vulnerable to depression and anxiety are misleading since they... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2015-09-18 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective PDF Gratuit Télécharger Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
A History of Self-Harm in Britain Chris Millard 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... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2015-07-31 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective PDF Gratuit Télécharger Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande

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Tous les livres numériques de la collection "Mental Health in Historical Perspective" - Palgrave Macmillan