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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hilton, Claire. author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan 2017
2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Mental Health in Historical Perspective,
Subjects:
Great Britain—History.
Social history.
Medicine—History.
Sociology.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Social History.
History of Medicine.
Gender Studies.
social welfare
NHS
public services
older people
history
psychiatry
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425398106719
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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