ISBN:
9781784990626
,
1784990620
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource
Series Statement:
Nursing history and humanities
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Dickinson, Tommy Curing queers' : Mental nurses and their patients, 1935-74
DDC:
306.7662
Keywords:
Psychiatric nursing History
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20th century
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Great Britain
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Aversion therapy History
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20th century
;
Great Britain
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Nurse and patient History
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20th century
;
Great Britain
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Gay men History
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20th century
;
Great Britain
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Cross-dressing History
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Great Britain
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Great Britain
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Transvestism History
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Transvestism History
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Nurse and patient History 20th century
;
Gay men History 20th century
;
Psychiatric nursing History 20th century
;
Aversion therapy History 20th century
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Psychiatric nursing History 20th century
;
Aversion therapy History 20th century
;
Nurse and patient History 20th century
;
Gay men History 20th century
;
Cross-dressing History
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History Of Medicine
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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LITERARY CRITICISM ; European ; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Aversion therapy
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Gay men
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Nurse and patient
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Psychiatric nursing
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Cross-dressing
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History
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Great Britain
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
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. The book begins in 1935 with the first official report on the use of aversion therapy to combat homosexual desire and continues until 1974, when the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its d
Description / Table of Contents:
Oppression and suppression of the sexual deviant, 1939-1967Work and practice of mental nurses, 1930-1959 -- "Subordinate nurses" -- "Subversive nurses" -- Liberation, 1957-1974.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 29, 2015
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