Unfortunate Folk': Essays On Mental Health Treatment, 1863 1992

Author: Barbara Brookes

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Price : 39.95 NZD
ISBN : 9781877276095
Publisher : Otago University Press
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Publication date : 01 January 2001
Dimensions : 230mm X 155mm
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In this collection of 15 studies, medical students at the University of Otago examine aspects of the early and modern history of mental health institutions in New Zealand and attitudes toward patients as unfortunate aliens to the world of reason. The final section looks at broader trends, including that country's professionalisation of psychiatry, women psychiatrists, and changing ideas about the mentally ill. Photographs feature asylums and special schools and their patients and staff in various periods.

First published August 2001.

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