Long Destigmatising mental illness?

Professional politics and public education in Britain, 1870–1970
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0325-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Disability History

Examines mental healthcare workers’ efforts to educate the public between 1870 and 1970

Autoren/Hrsg.

Long, Vicky

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Psychiatrists and their patients: mirrored narratives of sanity and madness
2. Insecure professionals and the public
3. Challenging the stigma of mental illness through new therapeutic approaches
4. Mad, bad and dangerous to know? Men, women and mental illness
5. ‘The personal touch’: voluntarism, the public and mental illness
6. ‘The public must be wooed and enticed with entertainment and buns’: healthcare professionals and the BBC
Conclusion
Brief timeline
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Long Vicky:
Vicky Long is Senior Lecturer in the History of Health and Healthcare at Glasgow Caledonian UniversityVicky Long is Senior Lecturer in the History of Health and Healthcare at Glasgow Caledonian University