Tous les livres numériques de la collection Mental Health in Historical Perspective

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Ana Antic Non-Aligned Psychiatry in the Cold War 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 Format(s) : ePub 112,30 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Emese Lafferton Hungarian Psychiatry, Society and Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century 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 Format(s) : PDF, ePub 122,51 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Jesper Vaczy Kragh Lobotomy Nation 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 Format(s) : PDF, ePub 122,51 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Rosemary Golding Music and Moral Management in the Nineteenth-Century English Lunatic Asylum This book traces the role played by music within asylums, the participation of staff and patients in musical activity, and the links drawn between music, health, and wellbeing. In the first part of the book, the author draws on a wide range of sources to investigate the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2021-09-01 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : PDF, ePub 56,14 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Leonard Smith Private Madhouses in England, 1640–1815 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 Format(s) : PDF, ePub 91,88 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Sarah Marks , Mat Savelli Psychiatry in Communist Europe 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 Format(s) : PDF 112,30 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Robert Ellis London and its Asylums, 1888-1914 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 Format(s) : PDF, ePub 91,88 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Stef Eastoe Idiocy, Imbecility and Insanity in Victorian Society 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 Format(s) : PDF, ePub 81,67 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Catharine Coleborne Why Talk About Madness? 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 Format(s) : PDF, ePub 30,62 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Hannah Proctor Psychologies in Revolution This book situates the work of the Soviet psychologist and neurologist Alexander Luria (1902-1977) in its historical context and explores the 'romantic' approach to scientific writing developed in his case histories. Luria consistently asserted that human consciousness... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-01-13 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : PDF, ePub 81,67 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
David Freis Psycho-Politics between the World Wars 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 Format(s) : PDF, ePub 58,19 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Jennifer S. Kain Insanity and Immigration Control in New Zealand and Australia, 1860–1930 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 Format(s) : PDF, ePub 81,67 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Yolana Pringle Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Uganda This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new generation of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for psychiatry at the end of empire, and explores the ways psychiatric... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-12-06 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : PDF, ePub Gratuit PDF ePub Télécharger Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Despo Kritsotaki , Vicky Long , Matthew Smith Preventing Mental Illness 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 Format(s) : PDF, ePub 68,40 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Sarah Ann Pinto Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay 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 Format(s) : PDF, ePub 51,04 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Alice Mauger The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland 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 Format(s) : PDF, ePub Gratuit PDF ePub Télécharger Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Jennifer Wallis Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum 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 Format(s) : PDF, ePub Gratuit PDF ePub Télécharger Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Claire Hilton Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People 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 Format(s) : PDF, ePub Gratuit PDF ePub Télécharger Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Despo Kritsotaki , Vicky Long , Matthew Smith Deinstitutionalisation and After 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 Format(s) : PDF, ePub 81,67 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Marjory Harper Migration and Mental Health The relationship between migration and mental health is controversial, contested, and pertinent. In a highly mobile world, where voluntary and enforced movements of population are increasing and likely to continue to grow, that relationship needs to be better... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2016-06-17 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : ePub 85,87 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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