Tommy Dickinson: 'Curing queers'

Cover: 9781784993580 | 'Curing queers' | Mental nurses and their patients, 1935-74 | Buch

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Beschreibung

Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive 'treatment' for homosexuality and transvestism, and the perceptions and actions of the men and women who nursed them. It examines why the majority of the nurses followed orders in administering the treatment - in spite of the zero success-rate in 'straightening out' queer men - but also why a small number surreptitiously defied their superiors by engaging in fascinating subversive behaviours. 'Curing queers' makes a significant and substantial contribution to the history of nursing and the history of sexuality, bringing together two sub-disciplines that combine only infrequently. It will be of interest to general readers as well as scholars and students in nursing, history, gender studies, and health care ethics and law.

Über den Autor

Tommy Dickinson is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Mental Health at King's College London

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Oppression and suppression of the sexual deviant, 1939-67
2. Work and practice of mental nurses, 1930-59
3. 'Subordinate nurses'
4. 'Subversive nurses'
5. Liberation, 1957-74
Concluding remarks
Epilogue
Bibliography
Appendix: biographies of interviewees
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Fachbereich:	Allgemeine Lexika
Genre:	Importe , Medizin
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781784993580
ISBN-10:	1784993581
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Dickinson, Tommy
Hersteller:	Manchester University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Tommy Dickinson
Erscheinungsdatum:	11.02.2016
Gewicht:	0,388 kg