Chapter 5 Self-Harm as Self-Cutting: Inpatients and Internal Tension : A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing

This book is the first account of self-harming behaviour in its proper historical and political context. The rise of self-cutting and overdosing in the 20th century is linked to the sweeping changes in mental and physical health, and wider political context. The welfare state, social work, Second Wo...

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Main Author: Millard, Chris (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Basingstoke Springer Nature 2015
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