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Mental Hygiene and Psychiatry in Modern Britain

Mental Hygiene and Psychiatry in Modern Britain

Description

Through an examination that uses previously unavailable archives and little-used primary literature, this book places the twentieth-century mental hygiene movement within the broad sweep of modern British psychiatry, offering its own reinterpretation of important elements of this history.

Keywords

ScienceHistoryEuropeGreat BritainSocial HistoryModernMedicalPsychiatry

2013Book

Author(s)Jonathan Toms

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK

ISBN9781137321565

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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