A History of Self-Harm in Britain A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing /

• Main Author: Millard, Chris (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
• Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective
• Subjects: Medicine.; History, Modern.; Great Britain > History.; Social history.; History.; Psychiatry.; Medicine > History.; Medicine & Public Health.; History of Medicine.; History of Britain and Ireland.; History of Science.; Social History.; Modern History.
• Physical Description: IX, 268 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9781137529626
• Access: Open Access

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.