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Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People Barbara Robb’s Campaign 1965-1975 /

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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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Autore principale: Hilton, Claire (Autore)
Ente Autore: SpringerLink (Online service)
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Serie:Mental Health in Historical Perspective
Soggetti:
History.
Great Britain > History.
Social history.
Medicine > History.
Sociology.
Sex (Psychology).
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Social History.
History of Medicine.
Gender Studies.
Accesso online:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54813-5
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Sommario:
  • 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.

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