A history of self-harm in Britain : a genealogy of cutting and overdosing / Chris Millard, Wellcome Trust Humanities Research Fellow, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.
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- Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 268 pages).
- text file PDF rda
- Series
- Mental health in historical perspective
- Mental health in historical perspective.
- Access
- Open access. GW5XE
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Summary
- "This book is open access under a CC BY license and is the first account of self-harming behaviour in its proper historical and political context. The rise of self-cutting and overdosing in the 20th century is linked to the sweeping changes in mental and physical health, and wider political context. The welfare state, social work, Second World War, closure of the asylums, even the legalization of suicide, are all implicated in the prominence of self harm in Britain. The rise of 'overdosing as a cry for help' is linked to the integration of mental and physical healthcare, the NHS, and the change in the law on suicide and attempted suicide. The shift from overdosing to self-cutting as the most prominent 'self-damaging' behaviour is also explained, linked to changes in hospital organization and the wider rise of neoliberal politics. Appreciation of history and politics is vital to understanding the psychological concerns over these self-harming behaviours"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction: self-harm from social setting to neurobiology -- 1. Early twentieth-century self-harm: cut throats, general and mental medicine -- 2. Communicative self-damage: war, NHS and social work -- 3. Self-harm becomes epidemic: Mental Health (1959) and Suicide (1961) Acts -- 4. Self-harm as a result of domestic distress -- 5. Self-harm as self-cutting: inpatients and internal tension -- Conclusion: the politics of self-harm: social setting and self-regulation.
- Description based on
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (OAPEN, viewed July 12, 2016).
- Subject
- Self-mutilation -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
- Self-injurious behavior.
- Self Mutilation -- history.
- History, 20th Century.
- United Kingdom.
- HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
- HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
- HISTORY -- Social History.
- MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
- MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
- Social & cultural history -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
- Illness & addiction: social aspects -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
- Care of the mentally ill -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
- British & Irish history -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
- Self-injurious behavior.
- Self-mutilation.
- Great Britain.
- Social & cultural history -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
- Illness & addiction: social aspects -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
- Care of the mentally ill -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
- European history -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
- History.
- Medicine & Public Health.
- Medicine -- History.
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- Spangenburg, Ray, 1939- History of science.
- Social history.
- History, Modern.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Added Title
- Genealogy of cutting and overdosing
- Other Form:
- Print version: Millard, Chris, 1983- author. History of self-harm in Britain 9781137529619 (DLC) 2015014210 (OCoLC)909320410
- ISBN
- 9781137529626 (electronic bk.)
- 1137529628 (electronic bk.)
- 9781137529633 (e-pub)
- 9781137547736 (paperback)
- 1137547731 (paperback)
- 9781137529619 (hardback)
- 113752961X (hardback)
- Standard No.
- 10.1007/978-1-137-52962-6 doi