J. Toms

Broschiertes Buch

Mental Hygiene and Psychiatry in Modern Britain

Beschreibung

Through an examination that uses previously unavailable archives and little-used primary literature, this book places the twentieth-century mental hygiene movement within the broad sweep of modern British psychiatry, offering its own reinterpretation of important elements of this history.

Autor

Jonathan Toms is a Fellow of the Institute for the History and Work of Therapeutic Environments. He has a PhD in the history of medicine and was a Wellcome Funded Research Fellow at the University of Warwick Centre for the History of Medicine, UK, from 2006-9. He has published articles on the history of mental health and learning disability.

Produktdetails

• Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-45808-0
• 1st ed. 2013
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781349458080
• ISBN-10: 1349458082
• Artikelnr.: 45068673