Destigmatising mental illness?: Professional politics and public education in Britain, 1870-1970
by Long, Vicky
Title Statements
- Full title :Destigmatising mental illness? : Professional politics and public education in Britain, 1870-1970.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2015.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Manchester University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (1 recurso electrónico.).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781526103253, 1526103257, 9781781707784, 1781707782
- oclc:on1105447820
- Dewey Decimal:362.20941
Table of Contents
Cover; Destigmatising mental illness?; Contents; List of figures; Series editors' foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations ; Introduction; 1 Psychiatrists and their patients: mirrored narratives of sanity and madness; 2 Insecure professionals and the public; 3 Challenging the stigma of mental illness through new therapeutic approaches; 4 Mad, bad and dangerous to know? Men, women and mental illness; 5 'The personal touch': voluntarism, the public and mental illness; 6 'The public must be wooed and enticed with entertainment and buns': healthcare professionals and the BBC.
Conclusion: is it time to change our approach to anti-stigma campaigns?Timeline: key dates; Bibliography; Index.
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