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Author Long, Vicky

Title Destigmatising mental illness? : Professional politics and public education in Britain, 1870-1970
Published Oxford : Manchester University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (273 pages)
Series Disability History MUP
Disability History MUP
Contents Cover; Destigmatising mental illness?; Contents; List of figures; Series editors' foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations ; 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: is it time to change our approach to anti-stigma campaigns?Timeline: key dates; Bibliography; Index
Summary Examines mental healthcare workers' efforts to educate the public between 1870 and 1970
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Mental health -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Health attitudes.
Mentally ill women.
Social Stigma
Mental Disorders -- history
Mentally Ill Persons
History, 20th Century
Health Education -- history
Attitude to Health
History, 19th Century
mentally ill.
History Of Medicine.
MEDICAL -- History.
Health attitudes
Mental health
Psychiatrie
Psychiater
Professionalisierung
Psychische Störung
Stigmatisierung
Sozialer Wandel
SUBJECT United Kingdom
Subject Great Britain
Großbritannien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Anderson, Julie
Schalick, Walton
ISBN 9781526103253
1526103257
9781781707784
1781707782
9781781706404
1781706409