A History of Self-Harm in Britain [electronic resource] : A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing / by Chris Millard.
Series: Mental Health in Historical PerspectivePublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015Description: IX, 268 p. online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781137529626
- 616.009 23
- R131-687

Open Access
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.