A History of Self-Harm in Britain [electronic resource] : A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing / by Chris Millard.
Material type: TextSeries: Mental Health in Historical PerspectivePublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015Edition: 1st ed. 2015Description: IX, 268 p. online resourceContent type:- 9781137529626
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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.