Patient voices in Britain, 1840-1948 / edited by Anne Hanley and Jessica Meyer.

Date:
2021
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Publication/Creation

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.

Physical description

xv, 347 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. I Locating the patient: new approaches -- 1. The non-patient's view / Michael Worboys -- 2. Family not to be informed? The ethical use of historical medical documentation / Alexia Moncrieff -- pt. II Voices from the institution -- 3. Lunatics' rights activism in Britain and the German Empire, 1870 -- 1920: a European perspective / Burkhart Bruckner -- 4. Narrating and navigating patient experiences of farm work in English psychiatric institutions, 1845 -- 1914 / Sarah Holland -- 5. The patient's view as history from below: evidence from the Victorian poor, 1834 -- 71 / Steve King -- pt. III User-driven medicine -- 6. Respiratory technologies and the co-production of breathing in the twentieth century / Jenny Hutton -- 7. The patient's new clothes: British soldiers as complementary practitioners in the First World War / Georgia McWhinney -- pt. IV Negotiating stigma and shame -- 8. ̀Dear Dr Kirkpatrick': recovering Irish experiences of VD, 1924 -- 17 / Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston -- 9. ̀I caught it and yours truly was very sorry for himself': mapping the emotional worlds of British VD patients / Anne Hanley.

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    History of Medicine
    HB.41.AA8-9
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  • 9781526154880