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

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Télécharger le livre : Hungarian Psychiatry, Society and Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century
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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
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Télécharger le livre : Lobotomy Nation
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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
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Télécharger le livre : Psychiatry in Communist Europe
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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
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Télécharger le livre : The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
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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
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Télécharger le livre : Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum
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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
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Télécharger le livre : Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People
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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
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Télécharger le livre : A History of Male Psychological Disorders in Britain, 1945-1980
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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
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Télécharger le livre : A History of Self-Harm in Britain
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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
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