This book is open access under a CC BY license and charts the rise and fall of various self-harming behaviours in twentieth-century Britain. It puts self-cutting and overdosing into historical perspective, linking them to the huge changes that occur in mental and physical healthcare, social work and wider politics.
Chris Millard
Self-harm Open Access self-cutting overdosing attempted suicide history of medicine history of psychiatry psychiatry liaison psychiatry Suicide Act Mental Health Act social work National Health Service Accident and Emergency welfare state