Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People Barbara Robb’s Campaign 1965-1975

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 Service psychiatric hospital b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hilton, Claire. author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan 2017
2017.
Edición:1st ed. 2017.
Colección:Mental Health in Historical Perspective,
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425398106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: A strange eventful history
  • 2. Psychiatric hospitals and older people: status quo or making changes?
  • 3. Barbara Robb, Amy Gibbs and the ‘Diary of a Nobody’
  • 4. Establishing AEGIS and writing Sans Everything: ‘the case’ and ‘some answers’
  • 5. Reprinted before publication: plotting a route for Sans Everything
  • 6. The inquiries: a lion’s den
  • 7. Whitewash and after: ‘Most good is done by stealth’
  • 8. Then and now: concluding remarks.