A History of Self-Harm in Britain A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing

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 physical healthcare, social work and...

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Main Author: Millard, Chris. author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Basingstoke Springer Nature 2015
London : 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Mental Health in Historical Perspective,
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009428050506719
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Summary: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 physical healthcare, social work and wider politics.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 268 pages)
Also available in print form
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781137529626