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A History of Self-Harm in Britain [electronic resource] : A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing / by Chris Millard.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Mental Health in Historical PerspectivePublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015Description: IX, 268 p. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137529626
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 616.009 23
LOC classification:
  • R131-687
Online resources: In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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.
Item type: eBooks
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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.

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