Social class and mental illness in Northern Europe

Verfasser / Beitragende:
edited by Petteri Pietikäinen and Jesper Vaczy Kragh
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
London and New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020
Beschreibung:
222 Seiten
Format:
Buch
ID: 583539254
Bände/Inhalt:
  • Introduction / Petteri Pietikäinen and Jesper Vaczy Kragh - Part 1: Social class and mental health care. 1. Pity the poor patient: the indigent mentally ill in late 19th and early 20th-century Finland / Petteri Pietikäinen - 2. Mental illness and social class in Northern Norway, 1900-1940 / Åshild Fause - 3. Citizens, patients or paupers? Class and mental health in post-war Britain / Vicky Long - 4. After patient murder. Asylum psychiatry in the four German occupation zones after World War II / Maike Rotzoll - 5. Children on the move. Psychiatric encounters with child evacuees returning to post-war Finland / Tuomas Laine-Frigren - Part 2: Psychiatry, crime and deviance. 6. Social class and opiate addiction in European psychiatry, 1870-1955 / Jesper Vaczy Kragh - 7. Psychopaths, querulants and class: on controversial diagnoses, money, norms, and networks in Sweden in the 1930s and 1940s / Annika Berg - 8. Unsound of mind: crime, madness and forensic psychiatry in Denmark and Finland in the first decades of the 20th century / Jesper Vaczy Kragh and Petteri Pietikäinen - 9. The ideal of the respectable woman: social class and femininity in forensic assessments of female patients at Østmarka Asylum, 1938-1969 / Maria Antonie Sæther - 10. Liberating the deviants: how to change the politics of social control - a case study from Finland, 1967-1971 / Katariina Parhi and Mikko Myllykangas
Zusammenfassung:
  • "This book examines the relationship between social class and mental illness in Northern Europe during the 20th century"--