Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People Barbara Robb’s Campaign 1965-1975 /
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book tells the story of Barbara Robb and her pressure group, Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions (AEGIS). In 1965, Barbara visited 73-year-old Amy Gibbs in a dilapidated and overcrowded National Health Service psychiatric hospital b...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Series: | Mental Health in Historical Perspective
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54813-5 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: A strange eventful history
- 2. Psychiatric hospitals and older people: status quo or making changes?
- 3. Barbara Robb, Amy Gibbs and the ‘Diary of a Nobody’
- 4. Establishing AEGIS and writing Sans Everything: ‘the case’ and ‘some answers’
- 5. Reprinted before publication: plotting a route for Sans Everything
- 6. The inquiries: a lion’s den
- 7. Whitewash and after: ‘Most good is done by stealth’
- 8. Then and now: concluding remarks.