Social Class and Mental Illness in Northern Europe (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Pietikäinen, Petteri; Kragh, Jesper Vaczy

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the relationship between social class and mental illness in Northern Europe during the 20th century. Contributors explore the socioeconomic status of mental patients, the possible influence of social class on the diagnoses and treatment they received in psychiatric institutions, and how social class affected the ways in which the problems of minorities, children and various 'deviants' and 'misfits' were evaluated and managed by mental health professionals. The basic message of the book is that, even in developing welfare states founded on social equality, social class has been a significant factor that has affected mental health in many different ways - and still does.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429779343
• Artikelnr.: 57894087

Autorenporträt

Petteri Pietikäinen is Professor of the History of Science and Ideas at the University of Oulu, Finland Jesper Vaczy Kragh is principle investigator at Psychiatry Region Zealand and a Fellow at CoRe, the University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Inhaltsangabe

1 .Introduction (Petteri Pietikainen and Jesper Vaczy Kragh) Part One:
Psychiatry, Mental Hospitals and Social Class 2. Class and mental health in
post-war Britain (Vicky Long) 3. Pity the poor patient: Small farmers,
rural labourers and industrial workers in a mental hospital in Northern
Finland, 1925-1970 (Petteri Pietikainen) 4. Different background, different
cure? How the patients' socioeconomic status affected Finnish institutional
psychiatry from the 1930s to the 1960s (Anu Rissanen) 5. After patient
murder. Asylum psychiatry in the four German occupation zones, 1945-1955
(Maike Rotzoll) 6. Radical reformist psychiatry and the class awareness in
Finland in the 1960s and 1970s (Mikko Myllykangas and Katariina Parhi)
Part Two: Minorities, Deviants and Psychopaths 7. The Romani minority in
Norwegian forensic hospitals, 1895-1940 (Øyvind Thomassen) 8. Femininity
and social class in forensic psychiatric assessments in Norway, 1938-1969
(Maria Antonie Sæther) 9. Social class and drug addiction in European
psychiatry, 1860-1955 (Jesper Vaczy Kragh) 10. Psychopaths, 'querulants'
and class in 1930s Sweden: On controversial diagnoses, money, norms and
networks (Annika Berg) Part Three: Social Class and Children: War,
Nervousness and Hyperactivity 11. 'Nervous children' - medical notions of
degeneration, mental health and social class in Denmark and England, ca
1900-1945 (Jennie Sejr Junghans) 12. Children changing places. Encountering
the 'war child' in post-war Finland (Tuomas Laine-Frigren) 13. Challenging
the biomedical narrative of ADHD: Social class, race, and hyperactivity in
the US and the UK, ca. 1950-2010 (Marie Reinholdt)