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A History of Self-Harm in Britain: A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing
Chris Millard
2015
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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.
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Keywords
- Accident and Emergency
- attempted suicide
- Health
- history of medicine
- History of Psychiatry
- liaison psychiatry
- Mental Health Act
- National Health Service
- Neoliberalism
- Neurobiology
- overdosing
- Psychiatry
- self-cutting
- Self-harm
- service
- social work
- Stress
- Suicide
- Suicide Act
- Welfare State
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-52962-6web: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-137-52962-6
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