Author: G. E. Berrios
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mentally ill
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: Hugh Freeman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 629

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Author: Jason Payne-James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781841100265
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 856

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This multi-author, multinational book has provided a source of information about the forensic aspects of medicine and related fields for those currently involved in the clinical and pathologic aspects of health care, forensic assessment, investigation and diagnosis for victims, assailants and others involved in police or judicial systems.

Author: German Berrios
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9780485115062
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 644

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Following 150 Years of British Psychiatry 1841-1991 (1991), the editors have compiled a second volume complete with index dealing with the principal developments in British psychiatry during the twentieth century and covering its most important conceptual and practical achievements. Accounts are provided of important episodes in British psychiatric history which have never been described adequately before. Within Volume I, this second volume constitutes the definitive history of British psychiatry since its formation during the nineteenth century.

Author: George Ikkos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1911623710
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 435

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A multidisciplinary account of the reforms in psychiatry and mental health in Britain during 1960-2010 and their relation to society.

Author: L. Hide
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137321431
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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An unprecedented number of people were sent to 'lunatic asylums' in the nineteenth century. But what was life like inside? How was order maintained? And why were so many doctors on the verge of a breakdown themselves? This book provides a glimpse into the lives of patients and staff inside two London asylums at the turn of the twentieth century.

Author: Brendan Kelly
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
ISBN: 1911024442
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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Hearing Voices: The History of Psychiatry in Ireland is a monumental work by one of Ireland’s leading psychiatrists, encompassing every psychiatric development from the Middle Ages to the present day, and examining the far-reaching social and political effects of Ireland’s troubled relationship with mental illness. From the “Glen of Lunatics”, said to cure the mentally ill, to the overcrowded asylums of later centuries – with more beds for the mentally ill than any other country in the world – Ireland has a complex, unsettled history in the practice of psychiatry. Kelly’s definitive work examines Ireland’s unique relationship with conceptions of mental ill health throughout the centuries, delving into each medical breakthrough and every misuse of authority – both political and domestic – for those deemed to be mentally ill. Through fascinating archival records, Kelly writes a crisp and accessible history, evaluating everything from individual case histories to the seismic effects of the First World War, and exploring the attitudes that guided treatments, spanning Brehon Law to the emerging emphasis on human rights. Hearing Voices is a marvel that affords incredible insight into Ireland’s social and medical history while providing powerful observations on our current treatment of mental ill health in Ireland.

Author: Hugh Freeman
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
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Author: Roderick D. Buchanan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198566883
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 489

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'Playing with Fire' is a biography of psychologist Hans J. Eysenck's career. It looks to describe the contradictions in Eysenck's public and professional image and explain how one fed the other. It documents his boyhood in Berlin and the origins of his key ideas about personality, learning and the biogenetics of behaviour.

Author: Volker Roelcke
Publisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 1580463398
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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The decades around 1900 were crucial in the evolution of modern medical and social sciences, and in the formation of various national health services systems. The modern fields of psychiatry and mental health care are located at the intersection of these spheres. There emerged concepts, practices, and institutions that marked responses to challenges posed by urbanization, industrialization, and the formation of the nation-state. These psychiatric responses were locally distinctive, and yet at the same time established influential models with an international impact. In spite of rising nationalism in Europe, the intellectual, institutional, and material resources that emerged in the various local and national contexts were rapidly observed to have had an impact beyond any national boundaries. In numerous ways, innovations were adopted and refashioned for the needs and purposes of new national and local systems. International Relations in Psychiatry: Britain, Germany, and the United States to World War II brings together hitherto separate approaches from the social, political, and cultural history of medicine and health care and argues that modern psychiatry developed in a constant, though not always continuous, transfer of ideas, perceptions, and experts across national borders. Contributors: John C. Burnham, Eric J. Engstrom, Rhodri Hayward, Mark Jackson, Pamela Michael, Hans Pols, Volker Roelcke, Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach, Mathew Thomson, Paul J. Weindling, Louise Westwood Volker Roelcke is professor and director at the Institute for the History of Medicine, Giessen University, Germany. Paul J. Weindling is professor in the history of medicine, Oxford Brookes University, UK. Louise Westwood is honorary research reader, University of Sussex, UK.