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oapen-20.500.12657-483902021-04-27T00:47:54Z Chapter 12 Preventing Male Mental Illness in Post-war Britain Haggett, Ali gender; men; women; mental illness bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBP Health systems & services::MBPK Mental health services Ali Haggett extends the boundaries of previous work, exploring the discourse around gender and prevention of mental illness in Britain from the 1950s. The chapter examines how important information about health and well-being was communicated to men, and in turn, how men conceptualised their own psychological well-being. Drawing on a range of printed primary sources and archival material, the chapter explores the medical, political and cultural context within which men and women negotiated ideas about their own well-being in post-war Britain. It argues that, for a range of complex reasons and competing exigencies, male mental health was almost entirely neglected—both reflecting and reinforcing prevailing assumptions about masculinity, coping and the image of the ‘strong, silent man’. 2021-04-26T11:57:18Z 2021-04-26T11:57:18Z 2019 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48390 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International Bookshelf_NBK538044.pdf Springer Nature Preventing Mental Illness Palgrave Macmillan 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 7774e71c-5c92-4362-8589-1cb030290f89 d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd Wellcome Palgrave Macmillan 24 10858/Z/15/Z Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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Ali Haggett extends the boundaries of previous work, exploring the discourse around gender and prevention of mental illness in Britain from the 1950s. The chapter examines how important information about health and well-being was communicated to men, and in turn, how men conceptualised their own psychological well-being. Drawing on a range of printed primary sources and archival material, the chapter explores the medical, political and cultural context within which men and women negotiated ideas about their own well-being in post-war Britain. It argues that, for a range of complex reasons and competing exigencies, male mental health was almost entirely neglected—both reflecting and reinforcing prevailing assumptions about masculinity, coping and the image of the ‘strong, silent man’.
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