About this book
Introduction
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.
Keywords
Self-harm Open Access self-cutting overdosing attempted suicide history of medicine history of psychiatry psychiatry liaison psychiatry Suicide Act Mental Health Act social work National Health Service Accident and Emergency welfare state neoliberalism health neurobiology service stress suicide
Authors and affiliations
- 1.Queen MaryUniversity of LondonUK
About the authors
Chris Millard is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, UK, interested in Munchasuen syndromes (including Munchausen by Proxy and Munchausen by Internet), self-harm, attempted suicide and parity of esteem in mental health. He helps run the Carnival of Lost Emotions – engaging the public about the history of feelings.
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