186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
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Making Mental Health: A Critical History historicises mental health by examining the concept from the ‘madness’ of the late nineteenth century to the changing ideas about its contemporary concerns and status. It argues that a critical approach to the history of psychiatry and mental health shows them to constitute a dual clinical-political project that gathered pace over the course of the... Read more
Introduction. 1. Walls. 2. Cures. 3. States. 4. Universals. 5. Discontents. 6. Markets. Conclusion. References.
Biography
Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research examines the history of psychiatry and medicine as well as the history of warfare. Between 2016 and 2021 she was an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in the university’s Centre for the Study of Violence.
